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William Shanks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Shanks (January 25, 1812 – June 1882, Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham, England ) was a British amateur mathematician. Shanks is famous for his calculation of π to 707 places, accomplished...
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Daniel Shanks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daniel Shanks (January 17, 1917 – September 6, 1996) was an American mathematician who worked primarily in numerical analysis and number theory. He is best known for his work on being the first to co...
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Ask a question about 'William Shanks' ... ; A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and/or research is the field of mathematics....
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William Shanks was a mathematician who spent a great amount of time compiling logarithm tables, prime number tables, and the like; in the days before calculating machines, large tables of such values were essential for work in engineering or physics.
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Whether any other Mathematician will appear, possessing sufficient leisure, patience, and facility of computation, to calculate the value of p to a still greater extent, remains to be seen: all that the Author can say is, he takes leave of the subject for the present ... ... William Shanks (1812-1882)
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William Shanks, a thirty-five year old amateur mathematician from Corsenside, came to settle in Houghton-le-Spring in 1847 with his new wife Jane Elizabeth, at about the same time that Houghton got its new Rector, the Hon & Rev John Grey.
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Physicist William Thomson proposes a concept of "absolute zero", at which the energy of molecules is zero. He draws on Charles' Law to show that such a condition would hold at -273 degrees Celsius. ... Mathematician William Shanks calculates pi to 707 places, although it will later be found that only 528 of those are correct.
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