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Borwein, Peter Benjamin was born on May 10, 1953 in St. Andrews, Scotland. Son of David and Bessie (Flax) Borwein.
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Pi and the AGM: A Study in Analytic Number Theory and Computational Complexity (Wiley-Interscience and Canadian Mathematics Series of Monographs and Texts)
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Critical Acclaim for Pi and the AGM: "Fortunately we have the Borwein's beautiful book . . . explores in the first five chapters the glorious world so dear to Ramanujan . . . would be a marvelous text book for a graduate course."--Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society "What am I to say about this quilt of a book? One is reminded of Debussy who, on being asked by his harmony teacher to explain what rules he was following as he improvised at the piano, replied, "Mon plaisir." The authors are cultured mathematicians. They have selected what has amused and intrigued them in the hope that it will do the same for us. Frankly, I cannot think of a more provocative and generous recipe for writing a book . . . (it) is cleanly, even beautifully written, and attractively printed and composed. The book is unique. I cannot think of any other book in print which contains more than a smidgen of the material these authors have included.--SIAM Review "If this subject begins to sound more interesting than it did in the last newspaper article on 130 million digits of Pi, I have partly succeeded. To succeed completely I will have gotten you interested enough to read the delightful and important book by the Borweins."--American Mathematical Monthly "The authors are to be commended for their careful presentation of much of the content of Ramanujan's famous paper, 'Modular Equations and Approximations to Pi'. This material has not heretofore appeared in book form. However, more importantly, Ramanujan provided no proofs for many of the claims that he made, and so the authors provided many of the missing details . . . The Borweins, indeed have helped us find the right roads."--Mathematics of Computation
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A Dictionary Of Real Numbers by J. Borwein (1990-08-01)
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Pi: A Source Book by J.L. Berggren (2004-06-17)
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Pi: A Source Book
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This book documents the history of pi from the dawn of mathematical time to the present. One of the beauties of the literature on pi is that it allows for the inclusion of very modern, yet accessible, mathematics. The articles on pi collected herein fall into various classes. First and foremost there is a selection from the mathematical and computational literature of four millennia. There is also a variety of historical studies on the cultural significance of the number. Additionally, there is a selection of pieces that are anecdotal, fanciful, or simply amusing. For this new edition, the authors have updated the original material while adding new material of historical and cultural interest. There is a substantial exposition of the recent history of the computation of digits of pi, a discussion of the normality of the distribution of the digits, and new translations of works by Viete and Huygen.
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Peter Benjamin Borwein
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Peter Benjamin Borwein, Canadian Mathematician. Recipient Merten Hasse prize Mathematical Association of America, 1993, Facultyof Year British Columbia/SCUFA, 1996. Member American Mathematics Society, Canada Mathematics Society, Mathematics Association American (Hasse prize 1993), Center for Constructive and Experimental Mathematics (associate director 1993).
Education
Bachelor of Science, U. Western Ontario, London, 1974; Master of Arts, U. B.C., Vancouver, 1976; Doctor of Philosophy, U. B.C., Vancouver, 1979.
Career
Postdoctoral fellow, Oxford (England) University, 1979-1980; assistant professor, Dalhousie U., Halifax, Nova Scoti, Canada, 1980-1985; associate professor, Dalhousie U., Halifax, Nova Scoti, Canada, 1985-1990; professor, Dalhousie U., Halifax, Nova Scoti, Canada, 1990-1993; professor, Simon Fraser U., Burnaby, B.C., Canada, since 1993.
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Pi and the AGM: A Study in Analytic Number Theory and Computational Complexity (Wiley-Interscience and Canadian Mathematics Series of Monographs and Texts)
(Critical Acclaim for Pi and the AGM: "Fortunately we h...)
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Pi: A Source Book
( This book documents the history of pi from the dawn of ...)
- A Dictionary Of Real Numbers by J. Borwein (1990-08-01)
- Pi: A Source Book by J.L. Berggren (2004-06-17)
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Pi and the AGM: A Study in Analytic Number Theory and Computational Complexity (Wiley-Interscience and Canadian Mathematics Series of Monographs and Texts)
Membership
Member American Mathematics Society, Canada Mathematics Society, Mathematics Association American (Hasse prize 1993), Center for Constructive and Experimental Mathematics (associate director 1993).
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Married Jennifer Elaine Moore, November 29, 1980. Children: Alexandra, Sophie, Theresa.
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