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From satellites to the London Olympics, all in one career

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Finding the area of a circle really is a piece of cake.

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September 2008
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Schrödinger equation

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Quantum mechanics is the physics of the extremely small. With something so far outside our everyday experience it's not surprising to find mathematics at the heart of it all. But at the quantum scale nothing in life is certain... Peter Landshoff explains.

Tags: quantum uncertainty : wave-particle duality : Schrödinger equation : de Broglie relation : wave function


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Mathematicians offer new proof of quasicrystals' strange electronic properties.

Tags: geometry : aperiodic tiling : Penrose tiling : physics : crystallography : Schrödinger equation