Assertion: identity | /r/HasProperty | paradoxical
Facets:
value: absolutely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: And Benjamin Peirce, a 19th-century American philosopher, mathematician, and professor at Harvard University, after proving Euler's identity during a lecture, stated that the identity "is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means, but we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth".