Jonathan Borwein

Jonathan Michael Borwein (1951 to 2016) was a Scottish-born 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, with him, a prominent public advocate of experimental mathematics. His interests spanned analysis, optimization, numerical and computational analysis and high performance computing, and he authored ten books and over 400 refereed articles. He was an expert on the number pi and especially its computation. At Simon Fraser University he was founding Director of the Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics and developed the Inverse Symbolic Calculator together with his brother Peter Borwein and Simon Plouffe. In 1995 he co-founded the software company MathResources, and in 1993 he received the Chauvenet Prize.