Pi, Euler Numbers, and Asymptotic Expansions

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J. M. Borwein

Jonathan M. Borwein was an Ontario Rhodes Scholar (1971) at Jesus College, Oxford, where he completed a D. Phil. (1974) with Michael Dempster. Since 1974 he has worked at Dalhousie University where he is professor of mathematics. He has also been on faculty at Carnegie-Mellon University (1980–82). He was the 1987 Coxeter-James lecturer of the Canadian Mathematical Society and was awarded the Atlantic Provinces Council on the Sciences 1988 Gold Medal for Research. His research interests include functional analysis, classical analysis, and optimization theory.

P. B. Borwein

Peter B. Borwein obtained a Ph.D. (1979) from the University of British Columbia, under the supervision of David Boyd. He spent 1979–80 as a NATO research fellow in Oxford. Since then he has been on faculty at Dalhousie (except for a sabbatical year at the University of Toronto) and is now Associate Professor of Mathematics. His research interests include approximation theory, classical analysis, and complexity theory.

K. Dilcher

Karl Dilcher received his undergraduate education and a Dipl. Math, degree at Technische Universität Clausthal in West Germany. He completed his Ph.D (1983) at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario with Paulo Ribenboim. Since 1984 he has been teaching at Dalhousie, where he is now Assistant Professor. His research interests include Bernoulli numbers and polynomials, and classical complex analysis.