I was introduced to ‘e’ at school. The quintessential natural logarithm or ln as it was called, was supposed to have a base ‘e’ (whatever that meant). Then I ‘met’ it again in calculus when the formula page for differentiation included Thank God – it is the same. One less thing to remember as we were trying to pile up stuff in memory ‘studying’ for board exams and entrances. I met it again in my M.Tech in AI/ML but I was not curious enough even then – to probe and understand what is was all about, instead trying to finish …
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