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Dates: during 2004-2004
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...rational numbers 1/8, 1/32, 1/96, 5/1536...that occur on the right-hand sides of these formulas are remarkably ubiquitous in mathematics and the mathematical sciences: they pop up in contexts ranging from power series for trig functions, to black-body radiation in physics, to abstruse mathematical disciplines such as K-theory and homotopy groups,” Elkies wrote in an e-mail...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Elkies Wins Ford Math Award | 8/13/2004 | See Source »

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