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 as the first to compute π to 100,000 decimal places, and for his book Solved and Unsolved Problems in Number Theory.
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17 January 1917 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Died |
6 September 1996 (aged 79) Maryland
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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