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A-ha!!! See? I knew Leonhard Euler had something to do with figure skating!
This is unrelated to the formula about e ^(i theta), but ...Euler’s Second Law (q,v.) extends Newton’s laws concerning angular momentum to the case of an extended three-dimensional rigid body (“Theoria motus corporum solidorum seu rigidorum,” 1765). Keep you body stiff while you are spinning and pull in your arms. You will spin faster. (Do not change positions. No haircutters. Biellman's just make you topple over. )