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| Clifford Pickover |
In a post I published in this blog over three years ago, I talked about the fine structure constant and some of its physical peculiarities. In this post I am going to talk about some of its mathematical peculiarities. I have taken them from a book I have mentioned on other occasions: A Passion for Mathematics, by Clifford A. Pickover.
As we know, the
most exact value of this constant is this:
α = 1/137.035999206
Pickover points out that Eric W. Weisstein, in his World of Physics website, offers two mathematical approximations incredibly close to this value: