Friday, 9 August 2013

real analysis - Verifying Euler's Formula from trigonometry



I know the proof for the Euler's formula by writing eiz as a Taylor series and arrange the brackets so that I get: eiz=cos(z)+isin(z). But I wonder if there is another way from going from cos(z)+isin(z) to eiz without using the Taylor series that is understandable for an undergraduate student?


Answer




Here's a thought:



Let f(x)=cos(x)+isin(x).



Then f(x)=sin(x)+icos(x)=if(x).



This would suggest that f(x)=ceix.



The initial condition f(0)=cos(0)+isin(0)=1 gives c=1.




So f(x)=eix.


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