Mathematician:Simon Plouffe

Mathematician

Canadian mathematician who discovered the formula for the BBP Algorithm which permits the computation of the $n$th binary digit of $\pi$.

Nationality

Canadian

History

• Born: 11th June 1956 in Saint-Jovite, Quebec

Theorems and Definitions

• BBP Algorithm (with David Harold Bailey and Peter Benjamin Borwein)

Publications

• 1995: The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (with N.J.A. Sloane)