At his "World of Physics" Web site, Eric W. Weisstein notes that the fine structure constant continues to fascinate nume — Clifford A. Pickover, A Passion for Mathematics: Numbers, Puzzles, Madness, Religion, and the Quest for Reality
At his "World of Physics" Web site, Eric W. Weisstein notes that the fine structure constant continues to fascinate nume — Clifford A. Pickover, A Passion for Mathematics: Numbers, Puzzles, Madness, Religion, and the Quest for Reality
At his "World of Physics" Web site, Eric W. Weisstein notes that the fine structure constant continues to fascinate nume — Clifford A. Pickover, A Passion for Mathematics: Numbers, Puzzles, Madness, Religion, and the Quest for Reality
At his "World of Physics" Web site, Eric W. Weisstein notes that the fine structure constant continues to fascinate nume — Clifford A. Pickover, A Passion for Mathematics: Numbers, Puzzles, Madness, Religion, and the Quest for Reality
At his "World of Physics" Web site, Eric W. Weisstein notes that the fine structure constant continues to fascinate nume — Clifford A. Pickover, A Passion for Mathematics: Numbers, Puzzles, Madness, Religion, and the Quest for Reality
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At his "World of Physics" Web site, Eric W. Weisstein notes that the fine structure constant continues to fascinate numerologists, who have claimed that connections exist between alpha, the Cheops pyramid, and Stonehenge!

— Clifford A. Pickover, A Passion for Mathematics: Numbers, Puzzles, Madness, Religion, and the Quest for Reality
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