Rational or Not? This Basic Math Question Took Decades to Answer.
In June 1978, the organizers of a large mathematics conference in Marseille, France, announced a last-minute addition to the program. During the lunch hour, the mathematician Roger Apéry would present a proof that one of the most famous numbers in mathematics — “zeta of 3,” or ζ(3), as mathematicians write it — could not be expressed as a fraction of two whole numbers. It was what mathematicians…
Author Of article : Erica Klarreich
What’s in the pink fire retardant being dropped on LA, and is it dangerous?
Parts of Southern California are covered with pink fire retardant as firefighters try to c…
