Brent Pym

A number is called a "period" if it can be expressed as the volume of a region in Euclidean space, defined by polynomial inequalities with rational coefficients. Many famous constants, such as π, log(2) and special values of the Riemann zeta function...

A deformation quantization of a manifold is a noncommutative deformation of its algebra of functions; the idea originated in physics, as a way of relating the classical and quantum descriptions of mechanical systems. At leading order in the...