John Machin (bapt. c. 1686 – June 9, 1751) was a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London. He is best known for developing a quickly converging...

John Machin (1624–1664), was an English nonconformist priest. Machin was born at Seabridge, in the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, on 2 Oct...

British football player Henry Machin (1832–1918), Quebec bureaucrat John Machin (1680–1751), British mathematician Mel Machin (born 1945), British football...

are from the "ready pen of the truly ingenious Mr. John Machin", leading to speculation that Machin may have employed the Greek letter before Jones. Jones'...

a circle) to a large number of digits. They are generalizations of John Machin's formula from 1706: π 4 = 4 arctan ⁡ 1 5 − arctan ⁡ 1 239 {\displaystyle...

(}{\frac {8}{7}}\cdot {\frac {8}{9}}{\Big )}\cdot \;\cdots } In 1706, John Machin used Gregory's series (the Taylor series for arctangent) and the identity...

LL.B. in 1709 and LL.D. in 1714. Taylor studied mathematics under John Machin and John Keill, leading to Taylor obtaining a solution to the problem of "center...

Buckley Machin (21 October 1901 – 20 June 1963) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born in Worksop in Nottinghamshire to coal miner John Machin...

Smith, E. A. (1999). George IV. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-07685-1. Machin, G. I. T. (1964). The Catholic Question in English Politics 1820 to 1830...

mathematicians used additional correction terms to speed convergence. John Machin (1706) expressed ⁠ 1 4 π {\displaystyle {\tfrac {1}{4}}\pi } ⁠ as a sum...

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Adolf P. Youschkevitch, chief editor: Boris A. Rosenfeld, p. 256 O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Ghiyath al-Din Jamshid Mas'ud al-Kashi", MacTutor...

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later its vice-president. William Jones was born as the son of Siôn Siôr (John George Jones) and Elizabeth Rowland in the parish of Llanfihangel Tre'r Beirdd...

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astronomer John Machin that "his head never ached but when he was studying the subject". According to Brewster, Edmund Halley also told John Conduitt that...

The Machin series /ˈmeɪtʃɪn/ of postage stamps was the main definitive stamp series in the United Kingdom for most of the reign of Elizabeth II, from 1967...

Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Volume 1. By Sir Isaac Newton, John Machin. Pg 12. In The Scientific Outlook (1931) Mathematics simplified and made...

Stephen Jonathan Machin (born 23 December 1962) is a British economist and professor of economics at the London School of Economics (LSE). Moreover, he...

John Machin (Finance) For 2019/2020, the co-chairs of the Group were Armin Haller (ANU), Brigette Metzler (DHS), Nicholas Car (QDNRME) & John Machin (Finance)...

Rothschild & Sons. From 1811 on, in negotiation with Commissary-General John Charles Herries, he undertook to transfer money to pay Wellington's troops...

). Cambridge University Press. p. 1011. Her other sisters died unmarried John H[arold] Wilson: Nell Gwyn: Royal Mistress (Dell Publishing Company, Inc...

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astronomer John Machin that "his head never ached but when he was studying the subject". According to Brewster, Edmund Halley also told John Conduitt that...

François Viète Seki Takakazu Takebe Kenko William Jones John Machin William Shanks Srinivasa Ramanujan John Wrench Chudnovsky brothers Yasumasa Kanada History...

1996. Van der Kiste, John (1997) George II and Queen Caroline. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-1321-5 John Walters, The Royal Griffin:...

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himself that he had succeeded in squaring the circle, a claim refuted by John Wallis as part of the Hobbes–Wallis controversy. During the 18th and 19th...

Exposition". Later, in 1982, it appeared in the journal Eureka, attributed to John Scholes, but Scholes claims he learned the proof from Peter Swinnerton-Dyer...

(2021-09-04). "Algorithmic Determination of a Large Integer in the Two-Term Machin-like Formula for π". Mathematics. 9 (17): 2162. arXiv:2107.01027. doi:10...