Book:Gustavo Piñeiro/e for Extraordinary

Gustavo Piñeiro: e for Extraordinary: The history and applications of the constant $e$

Published $\text {2017}$, National Geographic

ISBN 978-84-473-9129-5

National Geographic "Our Mathematical World" series: $46$

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Discovery of the number $e$

Chapter 2. How and why we calculate the number $e$

Chapter 3. The number $e$ and probabilities

Chapter 4. An irrational, transcendental and perhaps normal number

Chapter 5. The number $e$ and calculus

Appendices.

The first thousand decimal places of $e$

Other curious and interesting factss about the number $e$

Bibliography

Index