Jonathan Borwein
Jonathan Michael Borwein | |
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Born | (1951-05-20)20 May 1951 St. Andrews, Scotland |
Died | 2 August 2016(2016-08-02) (aged 65) |
Known for | Experimental mathematics, expert on pi, optimization, number theory, functional analysis |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Jonathan Michael Borwein (20 May 1951 – 2 August 2016)[1][2] was a Scottish mathematician who held an appointment as Laureate Professor of mathematics at the 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 pure mathematics (analysis), applied mathematics (optimization), computational mathematics (numerical and computational analysis), and high performance computing. He authored ten books, including several on experimental mathematics,[3] a monograph on 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 University of Western Ontario in 1971, and his D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1974 as a Rhodes Scholar at Jesus College.
Career
Prior to joining Simon Fraser University in 1993, he worked at Dalhousie University (1974–91), 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 Mathematical Association of America (2004–07), was president of the Canadian Mathematical Society (2000–02) and chair of (the Canadian National Science Library) NRC-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 Chauvenet Prize (1993),[9] Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada (1994), Fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2002), an honorary degree from Limoges (1999), and foreign membership in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2003). He was elected as a Fellow to the Australian Academy of Science (2010). In 2014, he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[10] He was an ISI highly cited mathematician for the period 1981–1999.
See also
References
- ^ "CV". Archived from the original on 18 December 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
- ^ a b "Jonathan Borwein dies at 65". experimentalmath.info. Math Drudge. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
- ^ "Books on Experimental Mathematics". www.experimentalmath.info. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
- ^ Brent, Richard (31 October 2021). "Jonathan Michael Borwein 1951 − 2016: Life and Legacy". Maple Transactions. 1 (2). arXiv:2107.06030. doi:10.5206/mt.v1i2.14358. ISSN 2564-3029.
- ^ Bailey, David H.; Borwein, Jonathan M.; Kapoor, Vishaal; Weisstein, Eric W. (1 June 2006). "Ten Problems in Experimental Mathematics". The American Mathematical Monthly. 113 (6): 481–509. doi:10.2307/27641975. hdl:1959.13/928097. JSTOR 27641975.
- ^ "Archimedes' constant pi". numbers.computation.free.fr. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
- ^ Brent, Richard P. (2020). "The Borwein Brothers, Pi and the AGM". From Analysis to Visualization. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. Vol. 313. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. 323–347. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-36568-4_21. ISBN 978-3-030-36567-7.
- ^ "Bulletin of the International Mathematical Union" (PDF). International Mathematical Union. June 2002. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
- ^ Borwein, J. M.; Borwein, P. B.; Bailey, D. H. (1989). "Ramanujan, Modular Equations, and Approximations to Pi or How to Compute One Billion Digits of Pi". The American Mathematical Monthly. 96 (3). Taylor & Francis: 201–219. doi:10.1080/00029890.1989.11972169. ISSN 0002-9890.
- ^ "Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
External links
- Jonathan Borwein's homepage
- Jonathan Borwein memorial website
- Jonathan Borwein at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- The experimental mathematics homepage and blog
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- 1925 G. A. Bliss
- 1929 T. H. Hildebrandt
- 1932 G. H. Hardy
- 1935 Dunham Jackson
- 1938 G. T. Whyburn
- 1941 Saunders Mac Lane
- 1944 R. H. Cameron
- 1947 Paul Halmos
- 1950 Mark Kac
- 1953 E. J. McShane
- 1956 Richard H. Bruck
- 1960 Cornelius Lanczos
- 1963 Philip J. Davis
- 1964 Leon Henkin
- 1965 Jack K. Hale and Joseph P. LaSalle
- 1967 Guido Weiss
- 1968 Mark Kac
- 1970 Shiing-Shen Chern
- 1971 Norman Levinson
- 1972 François Trèves
- 1973 Carl D. Olds
- 1974 Peter D. Lax
- 1975 Martin Davis and Reuben Hersh
- 1976 Lawrence Zalcman
- 1977 W. Gilbert Strang
- 1978 Shreeram S. Abhyankar
- 1979 Neil J. A. Sloane
- 1980 Heinz Bauer
- 1981 Kenneth I. Gross
- 1982 No award given.
- 1983 No award given.
- 1984 R. Arthur Knoebel
- 1985 Carl Pomerance
- 1986 George Miel
- 1987 James H. Wilkinson
- 1988 Stephen Smale
- 1989 Jacob Korevaar
- 1990 David Allen Hoffman
- 1991 W. B. Raymond Lickorish and Kenneth C. Millett
- 1992 Steven G. Krantz
- 1993 David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein and Peter B. Borwein
- 1994 Barry Mazur
- 1995 Donald G. Saari
- 1996 Joan Birman
- 1997 Tom Hawkins
- 1998 Alan Edelman and Eric Kostlan
- 1999 Michael I. Rosen
- 2000 Don Zagier
- 2001 Carolyn S. Gordon and David L. Webb
- 2002 Ellen Gethner, Stan Wagon, and Brian Wick
- 2003 Thomas C. Hales
- 2004 Edward B. Burger
- 2005 John Stillwell
- 2006 Florian Pfender & Günter M. Ziegler
- 2007 Andrew J. Simoson
- 2008 Andrew Granville
- 2009 Harold P. Boas
- 2010 Brian J. McCartin
- 2011 Bjorn Poonen
- 2012 Dennis DeTurck, Herman Gluck, Daniel Pomerleano & David Shea Vela-Vick
- 2013 Robert Ghrist
- 2014 Ravi Vakil
- 2015 Dana Mackenzie
- 2016 Susan H. Marshall & Donald R. Smith
- 2017 Mark Schilling
- 2018 Daniel J. Velleman
- 2019 Tom Leinster
- 2020 Vladimir Pozdnyakov & J. Michael Steele
- 2021 Travis Kowalski
- 2022 William Dunham, Ezra Brown & Matthew Crawford
- 2023 Kimmo Eriksson & Jonas Eliasson
- 2024 Jeffrey Whitmer