What REALLY is e? (Euler’s Number)

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To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/FoolishChemist. You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. In this video, we explain where Euler's number e = 2.71828... comes from. We start by studying the example of compound interest, and use it to generalize e to being a constant that describes continuous self-referential (exponential) growth. Enjoy! Subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/@FoolishChemist?sub_confirmation=1 https://www.instagram.com/foolish.chemist/ https://www.tiktok.com/@foolishchemist Feel free to reach out to me at: [email protected] #maths #calculus #multivariable #multivariablecalculus #perspective #some #someπ #learn #learning #intuition #intuitive FTC Disclaimer: This video was sponsored by Brilliant