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Peter Borwein

Canadian mathematician (1953-2020) · Canada · Academics · Died at 66

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Peter Benjamin Borwein was a Canadian mathematician and a professor at Simon Fraser University. He is known as a co-author of the paper which presented the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe algorithm for computing π.

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Chauvenet Prize1993

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Shreeram Shankar AbhyankarBoth received Chauvenet Prize

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David H. BaileyBoth received Chauvenet Prize Norman LevinsonBoth received Chauvenet Prize

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