What Ever Happened To...

Long ago (1992) I read an article in The New Yorker about a couple of Russian mathematicians who built a supercomputer in their Manhattan apartment to help calculate pi. I just thought about the article, "The Mountains of Pi", again today, though I can't say why.

I wondered what happened to these two characters - it turns out they're teaching at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, at "the Institute for Mathematics and Advanced Supercomputing, directed by the acclaimed mathematicians, brothers David and Gregory Chudnovsky."

But what are they doing? Google and Wikipedia searches were fruitless. There is, however, a French article, which when translated concludes:

"The Chudnovsky brothers are very discrete, they do not have a personal site. It is thus difficult to obtain information on their subject."

So...wait a minute - here's an article that sheds some light...