Richard P. Brent

Richard Peirce Brent is an Australian mathematician and computer scientist, an emeritus professor at the Australian National University whose research interests include number theory, factorization, random number generators, computer architecture and analysis of algorithms. In 1973 he published a root-finding algorithm now known as Brent's method, and in 1975 he and Eugene Salamin independently conceived the Salamin-Brent algorithm used in high-precision calculation of pi. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the IEEE, SIAM and the Australian Academy of Science.