Mathematics Point the Way to a Perfect Head of Beer

Researchers may have cracked the code for the perfect head on a glass of beer. The finding extends a formula that specifies how the area of two-dimensional shapes will change, discovered in part by famed mathematician John von Neumann in 1952. David Srolovitz of Yeshiva University in New York City, along with mathematician Robert MacPherson of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., published the finding online today in Nature.

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