[wideawake]

So he's saying that faith is unnecessary and useless, then.

It's all just math.

[SeekAndFind]

I think he’s saying that there are GOOD REASONS for faith, not that faith is unnecessary.

[Albion Wilde]

I think he’s saying that there is a mathematical structure beneath the rest of the story; rather like the steel beams that hold up a building against gravity. Those beams aren’t the whole building or the thing people see when they look at the building or use many of its facilities.

[scrabblehack]

exp(pi()*i) + 1 = 0, donc Dieu existe, respondez!

That’s the way I learned it in college anyway. It appears that (a + b^n)/n = x is a much more common version of the legend. (Euler and Diderot).