Mathematician:Daniel Shanks

Mathematician
American mathematician who worked primarily in numerical analysis and number theory.

Best known as the first to compute $\pi$ to $100 \, 000$ decimal places.

Unrelated to, who also calculated $\pi$ to a large number of places.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: January 17, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois
 * Died: September 6, 1996 in Maryland

Theorems and Definitions

 * Newman-Shanks-Williams Prime (with and )
 * Shanks Transformation
 * Shanks' Square Forms Factorization
 * Tonelli-Shanks Algorithm (with )

Publications

 * 1962:
 * 1962:

Notable Quotes

 * My tardiness in learning of these historical references [to 's work on factorization] was because I had lent Volume 1 of Dickson's History to a friend and it was never returned.