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4 unusual facts about Jonathan Borwein


AGM method

Later many authors have been going on to study and use the AGM algorithms, see, for example, the book Pi and the AGM by Jonathan and Peter Borwein.

Jonathan Borwein

He has received various awards including the Chauvenet Prize (1993), Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada (1994), Fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2002), an honorary degree from Limoges (1999), and foreign membership in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2003).

Noted for his prolific and creative work throughout the international mathematical community, he is a close associate of David H. Bailey, and they have recently been prominent public advocates of Experimental mathematics.

Tanh-sinh quadrature

Jonathan Borwein, David H. Bailey, and Roland Girgensohn, Experimentation in Mathematics—Computational Paths to Discovery.


Madelung constant

An unambiguous mathematical definition is given by Borwein, Borwein and Taylor by means of analytic continuation of an absolutely convergent series.

Peter Borwein

While he was there, he, his brother Jonathan Borwein and David H. Bailey of NASA wrote the 1989 paper that showed a proof for computing one billion digits of π.


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