Jonathan Michael Borwein was a Scottish mathematician who held an appointment as Laureate Professor of mathematics at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
14 Facts About Jonathan Borwein
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Jonathan Borwein was a close associate of David H Bailey, and they have been prominent public advocates of experimental mathematics.
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Jonathan Borwein authored ten books, including several on experimental mathematics, a monograph on convex functions, and over 400 refereed articles.
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Jonathan Borwein was a co-founder in 1995 of software company MathResources, consulting and producing interactive software primarily for school and university mathematics.
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Jonathan Borwein was an expert on the number pi and especially its computation.
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Jonathan Borwein was born in St Andrews, Scotland in 1951 into a Jewish family.
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Jonathan Borwein's father was mathematician David Borwein, with whom he collaborated.
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Jonathan Borwein was Shrum Professor of Science and a Canada Research Chair in Information Technology at Simon Fraser University, where he was founding Director of the Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics and developed the Inverse Symbolic Calculator together with his brother and Simon Plouffe.
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Jonathan Borwein was Governor at large of the Mathematical Association of America, was president of the Canadian Mathematical Society and chair of NRC-CISTI Advisory Board.
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Jonathan Borwein served as chair of various NATO scientific programs.
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Jonathan Borwein was Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute.
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Jonathan Borwein chaired the Canadian HPC consortium, later Compute Canada, and the International Mathematical Union's Committee on Electronic Information and Communications.
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Jonathan Borwein received various awards including the Chauvenet Prize, Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada, Fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an honorary degree from Limoges, and foreign membership in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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Jonathan Borwein was elected as a Fellow to the Australian Academy of Science.