Mathematician:Harold Jacques Dutka
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Mathematician
American mathematician who was the first to calculate the square root of $2$ to more than one million digits.
Also wrote extensively on the history of mathematics.
Nationality
American
History
- Born: 1919
- Died: 2002
Publications
- 1943: Transversality in Higher Space
- 1971: The Square Root of $2$ to $1,000,000$ Decimals (Math. Comp. Vol. 25, no. 116: pp. 927 – 930) www.jstor.org/stable/2004359
- 1984: The Early History of the Hypergeometric Function (Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. Vol. 31: pp. 15 – 34) www.jstor.org/stable/41133728
- 1986: On square roots and their representations (Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. Vol. 36: pp. 21 – 39) www.jstor.org/stable/41133793
- 1988: On the St. Petersburg Paradox (Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. Vol. 39: pp. 13 – 39) www.jstor.org/stable/41133842
Also known as
Usually known as Jacques Dutka.