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Following my earlier posts on historical aesthetic judgements of Euler's identity, I just found another one, in Constance Reid's popular mathematics book ‘From Zero to Infinity’ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Zero_to_Infinity], where it is called ‘elegant’. This appears on p.165 of the 1964 third edition. Can anyone confirm if it appears in the first or second editions? (1955, 1960)

I am still interested in other aesthetic judgements of Euler's identity before 1988 (I know of few, although one more than I knew of yesterday), and especially before 1940 (I currently know of none).

Incidentally, as printed in the third edition of Reid's book, the equation would evoke a shudder from any typographer (see attached image).

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