Eugene Salamin (mathematician) explained

Eugene Salamin is a mathematician who discovered (independently with Richard Brent) the Salamin - Brent algorithm, used in high-precision calculation of pi.^{[1] [2]}

Eugene Salamin worked on alternatives to increase accuracy and minimize computational processes through the use of quaternions.Benefits may include:

1. the design of spatio-temporal databases;
2. numerical mathematical methods that traditionally prove unsuccessful due to buildup of computational error;
3. therefore, may be applied to applications involving genetic algorithms and evolutionary computation, in general.

Publications

Computation of $\pi$ Using Arithmetic-Geometric Mean . Eugene Salamin . Mathematics of Computation . 1976 . 30 . 135 . 565–570 . 2005327.

See also

• HAKMEM

References

1. Web site: pi-ref.doc . Carey Bloodworth . August 11, 1996 . September 10, 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101123193635/http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pi-ref.txt . November 23, 2010 .
2. π and its computation through the ages . Gourdon . Xavier . Sebah . Pascal . August 13, 2010.