• Peter Benjamin Borwein (born St. Andrews, Scotland, May 10, 1953 – 23 August 2020) was a Canadian mathematician and a professor at Simon Fraser University...
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  • Borwein's algorithm was devised by Jonathan and Peter Borwein to calculate the value of 1 / π {\displaystyle 1/\pi } . This and other algorithms can be...
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  • Peter Borwein (1953–2020), Scotland-born Canadian mathematician and a professor Borwein's algorithm, algorithm devised by Jonathan and Peter Borwein to...
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  • father was mathematician David Borwein, with whom he collaborated. His brother Peter Borwein was also a mathematician. Borwein was married to Judith (née...
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  • The Erdős–Borwein constant, named after Paul Erdős and Peter Borwein, is the sum of the reciprocals of the Mersenne numbers. By definition it is: E = ∑...
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  • authors of the article in which it was published, David H. Bailey, Peter Borwein, and Plouffe. Before that, it had been published by Plouffe on his own...
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  • Erdős and Peter Borwein Eddington number – Arthur Stanley Eddington Dunbar's number – Robin Dunbar Embree–Trefethen constant Erdős–Borwein constant Euler–Mascheroni...
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  • fellows. Borwein died in his sleep on September 3, 2021, at the age of 97. Borwein integral Jonathan Borwein (son and co-researcher) Peter Borwein (son and...
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    {1}{(k+1)^{s}}}.} Note that the second, inside summation is a forward difference. Peter Borwein used approximations involving Chebyshev polynomials to produce a method...
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  • discovered by Fabrice Bellard in 1997. It is about 43% faster than the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula (discovered in 1995). It has been used in PiHex, the now-completed...
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    the Berkeley Lab. Bailey is perhaps best known as a co-author (with Peter Borwein and Simon Plouffe) of a 1997 paper that presented a new formula for...
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    2307/2971093. JSTOR 2971093. Reprinted in: Lennart Berggren, Jonathan Borwein, and Peter Borwein, Pi: A Source Book, 3rd ed. (New York, New York: Springer-Verlag...
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    officially enrolled at SFU in 1998. At SFU he studied number theory under Peter Borwein, and competed in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition...
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  • Arndt & Haenel 2006, p. 17. Bailey, David H.; Plouffe, Simon M.; Borwein, Peter B.; Borwein, Jonathan M. (1997). "The quest for PI". The Mathematical Intelligencer...
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  • supercomputer. Some of his competitors in recent years include Jonathan and Peter Borwein and the Chudnovsky brothers. Chronology of computation of π Mcavoy,...
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    {O}}{\biggl (}k^{-3/4+\varepsilon }{\biggl )}\qquad (\forall \varepsilon >0)} Peter Borwein developed an algorithm that applies Chebyshev polynomials to the Dirichlet...
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    like the Gauss–Legendre algorithm and Borwein's algorithm. The latter, found in 1985 by Jonathan and Peter Borwein, converges extremely quickly: For y 0...
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  • Ribet's theorem. 1987 – Yasumasa Kanada, David Bailey, Jonathan Borwein, and Peter Borwein use iterative modular equation approximations to elliptic integrals...
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  • anti-abortion activist, cancer. Roger Unger, 96, American endocrinologist. Peter Borwein, 67, Scottish-born Canadian mathematician, pneumonia. Bill Burega, 88...
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  • IBM-7090 computer. 1987 — Yasumasa Kanada, David Bailey, Jonathan Borwein, and Peter Borwein use iterative modular equation approximations to elliptic integrals...
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  • Bernstein 2006 Manindra Agrawal 2004 Manjul Bhargava 2002 Bjorn Poonen 2000 Peter Borwein 1998 Hendrik Lenstra 1996 John Conway 1994 Hugh Williams 1992 Carl Pomerance...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stanley Skewes (mathematician). Peter Borwein (2008). The Riemann Hypothesis: A Resource for the Aficionado and Virtuoso...
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    Borcherds Christian Borgs Allan Borodin Karol Borsuk David Borwein Jonathan Borwein Peter Borwein Jit Bose Raj Chandra Bose Fernanda Botelho Jean Bourgain...
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  • differential equations David Borwein (1924–2021), mathematician Jonathan Borwein (1951–2016), mathematician Peter Borwein (1953–2020), mathematician Raoul...
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    Béla Bollobás, Robert Morris, Julian Sahasrabudhe, and Marius Tiba. Peter Borwein (2002). Computational Excursions in Analysis and Number Theory. CMS...
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  • (1995, ISBN 978-0-387-94338-1) Polynomials and Polynomial Inequalities, Peter Borwein, Tamas Erdelyi (1995, ISBN 978-0-387-94509-5) Groups and Representations...
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  • scientist[citation needed] David Borwein (1924–2021), mathematician Jonathan Borwein (1951–2016), mathematician Peter Borwein (1953–2020), mathematician Nathan...
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    Researchers such as Kurt Mahler, Andrew Odlyzko, Bjorn Poonen and Peter Borwein have contributed to this field. By using companion matrices, these polynomial...
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  • David Lindsay Roberts 2002: Dirk Huylebrouck 2002: Greg Martin 2002: Peter Borwein & Loki Jorgenson 2001: E.R. Scheinerman 2001: Keith Kendig 2000: P.J...
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  • Bandura, psychologist Stewart Blusson, diamond hunter and philanthropist Peter Borwein, mathematician and pi researcher Mary De Vera, pharmacoepidemiologist...
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