It was while looking for "pretty mathematics" in his spartan rooms at St. John's College in late November 1927 that Dirac literally plucked from thin air what would become known as the Dirac equation.

The equation contains the five most important numbers in math — 1, 0, pi, i, and e — with the three basic operations that give math structure: Addition, multiplication, and exponentiation. In ...

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We investigate the convergence properties of a three-dimensional quantum lattice Boltzmann scheme for the Dirac equation. These schemes were constructed as discretizations of the Dirac equation based ...

By correcting the simple derivation from the Dirac equation to account for self-interaction and mass renormalization, he did indeed arrive at a new way to calculate the electron's magnetic moment.

Paul Dirac won a Nobel in 1933 for the first relativistic theory of particles, the Dirac equation and predicted antimatter. “The great papers of the other quantum pioneers were more ragged, less ...