Otter's Journal: Pay to the order of...: $e^(i*pi) +1

One of the Subversion heads received a bill from the Mathematical Association of America for $0.00. Naturally, he took the opportunity to send them a check for e^(i*pi)+1, which went tragically uncashed. Adding to the fun, it was check number 1729! (I'd provide clarification, but if you don't laugh at this as written, an explanation won't help...)

HAHAHA

[AntiFreeze]

That's priceless. Totally priceless. </mathgeek>

Re:

[Otter]

I get everything until the thing about check number 1729. What's the significance of that??

It's the Hardy-Ramanujan number [wikipedia.org].

Spoilers

[Megane]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler's_identity [wikipedia.org]
http://blog.sciencenews.org/mathtrek/2007/04/euler s_beautiful_equation.html [sciencenews.org]
http://web.mit.edu/murj/www/v13/v13-Features/v13-f 2.pdf [mit.edu]

Correction: "Speulers"

[Megane]

Sorry, I didn't figure out the pun until a few minutes later.