David Bailey

Biography

David H. Bailey received his B.S. in mathematics from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. in mathematics from Stanford University. During his career, he has achieved recognition both in high-performance computing (with published research in parallel computing, supercomputer performance, and numerical algorithms), as well as in pure mathematics. Indeed, he is unique in having received major awards from both a computer society (the IEEE Computer Society) and a mathematical society (the Mathematical Association of America). He is perhaps best known as co-author of a 1996 paper that presented the “BBP” formula pi, which permits one to calculate binary digits of pi beginning at an arbitrary starting point, without needing to calculate any of the preceding digits. The discovery of this formula, by means of a computer program and the “PSLQ” integer relation algorithm, was a key development in the emergence of modern experimental mathematics.

Titles

• Experimental Mathematics in Action
• Experimentation in Mathematics: Computational Paths to Discovery
• Experiments in Mathematics CD