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e^(i t) = cos t + i sin t

Name: Anonymous 2006-09-18 20:29

How is the exponential function the same as sin function? I can't seem to picture it.. Does anyone have a graph of this function?

Name: Anonymous 2006-09-18 22:33

It's not the same. What gave you that idea? Also, the complex exponential is very difficult to "picture". You'd need a course on complex analysis to visualize what it's doing, but you only need basic calculus to derive this relationship.

Tailor expand e^(it), cos(t) and i sin(t). Then look at the results. Here are a couple concise proofs:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/EulerFormula.html

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