Mathematician:Peter Benjamin Borwein

Mathematician

Scottish mathematician best known for his contribution towards the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe Algorithm.

Younger brother of Jonathan Michael Borwein and son of David Borwein.

Nationality

Scottish, of Lithuanian origin

History

• Born: 10 May 1953, St. Andrews, Scotland

Theorems and Definitions

• Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe Algorithm (with David Harold Bailey and Simon Plouffe)
• Borwein's Algorithm (with Jonathan Michael Borwein)

Publications

• 1996: Giuga's Conjecture on Primality (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 103, no. 1: pp. 40 – 50) (with D. Borwein, J.M. Borwein and R. Girgensohn)  www.jstor.org/stable/2975213