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How To Solve Any Problem Using Enrico Fermi’s Back-Of-The-Envelope Math (And Some Common Sense)

In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles away, holding a few scraps of ...

Human ingenuity outpaces AI in finding new 'kissing number' bounds

How many coins can touch one coin, or how many basketballs can "kiss" one basketball at the same time? This seemingly playful ...
IEEE

Zhang Extrapolation (ZE) Relationship, Formulas and Simple Derivation as well as Predictive Application Based on VAH (Victory After Hardship) Years 1918 and 1945

Abstract: As a hot topic of future measure and control (FMAC) and also an attempt, this paper focuses on the predictive application of the Zhang extrapolation (ZE) formulas, based on two significant ...
Scientific American

Prime Numbers Show Unexpected Patterns of Fractal Chaos

Montgomery happened to find strikingly similar behavior in the prime numbers— specifically, the correlations between the ...