e (Euler's Number) is seriously everywhere | The strange times it shows up and why it's so important

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Timestamps/Extra Resources

2:42 - Derangements (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derangement)
3:11 - Optimal Stopping (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_stopping)
5:25 - Infinite Tetration (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetration)
6:25 - 1958 Putnam exam question (https://mks.mff.cuni.cz/kalva/putnam/putn58.html)
9:33 - Fourier Transform (GIF credit to 3blue1brown, check out his video on the FT here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY)
10:56 - Gamma Function (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_function)
12:53 - Casimir Effect Paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9901011.pdf)
13:20 - Higher Dimensional Spheres (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_of_an_n-ball)

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