E Raised by any arc length(pie as unit) time i is a Dot on the Circle

Famous e^(ipie) = -1, why?

Form the following visual, premised on m reaches to the infinite big number, and geometry a complex number times another complex number is basically fold upon another the area.

It’s easy to also learn that pie can be replaced by any value, interpreted as an arc length on the circle, say 1/6pie, 1/3pie etc.

according to the nature of e (as is deduced from investing in bank one dollar with an annual interest rate of 100%=1, if you can collect that interest rate based on infinite small amount of period the total maximum money one can collect is

e = (1+1/m)^m = 2.3…; or more generic form for interest = r, period = T, then the amount is e^rT = (1+rT/m)^m.

when r, T belong to real number, it’s intuitive.

When r, T belong to imaginary number, composed of complex number the geometric depiction is right as above.

Hence, we really like this property of e Raised by any arc length(pie as unit) time i because it represents a Dot on the Circle so conveniently.

This way to understand e to the power of an imaginary number times pie(or any other real values) is intuitive but not the most complete. According to 3B1B, the ultimate interpretation of e to the power of something (something could be real number, imaginary number, matrix or even derivative…) is the polynomial equation:

If you plug in the matrix diagonal pie and pie as below, it will reach to a constant value of identify matrix.

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