The Chudnovsky Brothers are mathematicians known for their wide-ranging mathematical abilities, their home-built supercomputers, and their close working relationship. A 1992 article in the New Yorker quoted several mathematicians' opinions that Gregory Chudnovsky has one of the top mathematical minds alive today. David Chudnovsky works closely with and assists his brother Gregory, who suffers from Myasthenia Gravis. Gregory Chudnovsky is a mathematician with a particular interest in number theory. ... David Chudnovsky is a mathematician, and is the brother of Gregory Chudnovsky. ... Myasthenia gravis is a disorder of neuromuscular transmission leading to fluctuating weakness and fatigue. ...
The Chudnovsky Brothers have held records, at different times, for computing Pi to the largest number of places, including over two billion digits. This last feat was accomplished in the early 1990s on a supercomputer they built (http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/?050411fr_archive01) in their Brooklyn apartment. The minuscule, or lower-case, pi The mathematical constant π is commonly used in mathematics and physics. ...
The brothers also assisted the Metropolitan Museum of Art around 2003 in the merge of a series of digital photographs taken of the The Hunt of the Unicorn tapistries during their cleaning. There is also the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), located in Manhattan. ...
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Mountains of Pi (http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/?050411fr_archive01), the New Yorker, 1992.
Capturing the Unicorn (http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050411fa_fact), the New Yorker, 2005.
The two brothers, who both received doctorates from the Institute of Mathematics in the Ukraine and then came to the U.S. in 1978, were famous in the scientific community long before they came to Polytech six months ago.
At Polytech, the two brothers head the Institute for Mathematics and Advanced Supercomputers (IMAS), a new center that will push the boundaries of mathematics and solve problems across a wide spectrum of scientific disciplines.
Of the Chudnovskys at Poly, Grinberg says, "These are people who have combined mathematics, electrical engineering, graph theory and more, and are able to work in a multidisciplinary environment.
Gregory Chudnovsky's partner in the design and construction of the supercomputer was his older brother, David Volfovich Chudnovsky, who is also a mathematician, and who lives five blocks away from Gregory.
The brothers claim that m zero is a "true, general-purpose supercomputer", and that it is as fast and powerful as a somewhat older Cray Y-MP, but not as fast as the latest of the Y-MP machines, the C90, an advanced supercomputer made by Cray Research.
The brothers say that the "m" in "m zero" stands for "machine", and that they use a small letter to imply that the machine is a work in progress.
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