Jonathan Borwein

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Jonathan Michael Borwein
Born(1951-05-20)20 May 1951
optimization, number theory, functional analysis
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics

Jonathan Michael Borwein (20 May 1951 – 2 August 2016)

University of Newcastle, Australia. He was a close associate of David H. Bailey, and they have been prominent public advocates of experimental mathematics
.

Borwein's interests spanned

convex functions, and over 400 refereed articles.[4] He was a co-founder in 1995 of software company MathResources,[5]
consulting and producing interactive software primarily for school and university mathematics. He was not associated with MathResources at the time of his death.

Borwein was also an expert on the number pi and especially its computation.[6][7]

Early life and education

Borwein was born in

St. Andrews, Scotland, in 1951 into a Jewish family. His father was mathematician David Borwein, with whom he collaborated. His brother Peter Borwein
was also a mathematician.

Borwein was married to Judith (née Roots), and had three daughters.[2]

He received his B.A. (Honours Math) from

Oxford University in 1974 as a Rhodes Scholar at Jesus College
.

Career

Prior to joining

Carnegie-Mellon (1980–82) and the University of Waterloo
(1991–93). He was Shrum Professor of Science (1993–2003) and a Canada Research Chair in Information Technology (2001–08) at Simon Fraser University, where he was founding Director of the Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics and developed the Inverse Symbolic Calculator together with his brother and Simon Plouffe. In 2004, he (re-)joined the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University as a Canada Research Chair in Distributed and Collaborative Research, cross-appointed in Mathematics, while preserving an adjunct appointment at Simon Fraser.

Borwein was Governor at large of the

CISTI Advisory Board (2000–2003). He served as chair of various NATO scientific programs. He was also Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI). He chaired the Canadian HPC consortium, later Compute Canada, and the International Mathematical Union's Committee on Electronic Information and Communications (2002–2008).[8]

Awards

Borwein received various awards including the

highly cited mathematician
for the period 1981–1999.

See also

References

  1. ^ "CV". Archived from the original on 18 December 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
  2. ^ a b "Jonathan Borwein dies at 65". experimentalmath.info. Math Drudge. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  3. ^ "Books on Experimental Mathematics". www.experimentalmath.info. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  4. ISSN 2564-3029
    .
  5. hdl:1959.13/928097
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  6. ^ "Archimedes' constant pi". numbers.computation.free.fr. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  7. ISBN 978-3-030-36567-7
    .
  8. ^ "Bulletin of the International Mathematical Union" (PDF). International Mathematical Union. June 2002. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  9. ISSN 0002-9890
    .
  10. ^ "Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 16 November 2022.

External links

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