John William Wrench, Jr. (October 13, 1911 – February 27, 2009) was an American mathematician who worked primarily in numerical analysis. He was a pioneer...

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century again revolutionized the hunt for digits of π. Mathematicians John Wrench and Levi Smith reached 1,120 digits in 1949 using a desk calculator....

Naperian base," Mathematical Magazine, 1 (12) : 204–205. Daniel Shanks; John W Wrench (1962). "Calculation of Pi to 100,000 Decimals" (PDF). Mathematics of...

Commission in Paris, by means of the program of Genuys Shanks, Daniel; Wrench, John W. J.r (1962). "Calculation of π to 100,000 decimals". Mathematics of...

Big John Wrencher (February 12, 1923 – July 15, 1977), also known as One Arm John, was an American blues harmonica player and singer, well known for playing...

John Mervyn Dallas Wrench CIE (15 September 1883 – 31 August 1961) was Chief Engineer of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway and later Chief Controller...

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

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

Daniel Shanks and John Wrench compute π to 100,000 decimal places using an inverse-tangent identity and an IBM-7090 computer. 1961 – John G. F. Francis and...

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

decimal places. 1949 — John von Neumann computes π to 2,037 decimal places using ENIAC. 1961 — Daniel Shanks and John Wrench compute π to 100,000 decimal...

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

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

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

using an IBM 7090 at Place Vendôme, Paris. In 1962, Daniel Shanks and John Wrench used an IBM 7090 to compute the first 100,000 digits of π. In 1963, three...

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2014. US1413121A, Arthur, Johnson John, "Wrench", issued 1922-04-18  "Did Jack Johnson Invent the Monkey Wrench?". Snopes.com. December 14, 2015. "On...

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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...

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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...

Shanks's most prominent work in numerical analysis was a collaboration with John Wrench and others to compute the number π to 100,000 decimal digits on a computer...

1515528 Alternate online, full-text copy at archive.org Sugaku-bunka O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Takakazu Shinsuke Seki", MacTutor History of Mathematics...

Clausen's series, which converges very rapidly, and credits this idea to John Wrench. Crandall, Richard (2012), "The googol-th bit of the Erdős–Borwein constant"...

University of Maine Archived 2010-06-14 at the Wayback Machine O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Zu Chongzhi", MacTutor History of Mathematics...