Milnor wins 2011 Abel prize

By admin, on March 25th, 2011%

John Milnor, the American mathematician known for his discovery of exotic hyperspheres, has been awarded the 2011 Abel Prize by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The Abel Prize, which is accompanied by a cash award of USD$1 million, is generally regarded as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the field of mathematics.

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Pi goes on forever

By admin, on March 9th, 2011%

In honor of Pi Day — 3.14.2011 — we offer a brief history of Pi and of its computation.

By David H. Bailey and Jonathan M. Borwein

I. A brief history of Pi

The mathematical constant we now know as Pi = 3.14159… has fascinated mathematicians for millennia. Archimedes of Syracuse (~250 BCE) rigorously showed . . . → Read More: Pi goes on forever

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