A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of ...
Physicists have transformed a decades-old technique for simplifying quantum equations into a reusable, user-friendly ...
Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...
A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the ...