Intuition behind Normal distribution forumula

Question

In this formula

$$ P(x) = \frac{1}{{\sigma \sqrt {2\pi } }}e^{ - \frac{ \left( {x - \mu } \right)^2 }{2\sigma^2}} $$

why do we divide by square root 2 pi and after that multiply everything by e in some power - how all these thing contribute to normal distribution individually?

Answer 1

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