About: Chudnovsky brothers is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1 publications have been published within this topic receiving 8 citations. The topic is also known as: David and Gregory Chudnovsky & David Volfovich Chudnovsky.
TL;DR: In this paper, Blatner tells the story of pi: from Archimedes to da Vinci, from Newton to the Chudnovsky brothers, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
Abstract: Few mathematical mysteries have captured the imagination as much as pi - the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. For 4000 years we have struggled with this magical number, David Blatner tells the story of pi: from Archimedes to da Vinci, from Newton to the Chudnovsky brothers.