You can track the start of spring and the phases of the moon—or you can turn to a formula by mathematician Carl Friedrich ...
Ben Liu is a quantitative problem solver. Liu has modeled aspects of cells and measured the limits of cardio-electrophysiological models as an undergraduate in RIT’s School of Mathematical Sciences.
Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in school, where we learn about its use in the context of a circle. More ...