Ten Problems in Experimental Mathematics

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David H. Bailey

DAVID H. BAILEY received his B.S. at Brigham Young University and received his Ph.D. (1976) from Stanford University. He worked for the Department of Defense and for SRI International, before spending fourteen years at NASA's Ames Research Center in California. Since 1997 he has been the chief technologist of the Computational Research Department at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 1993, he was a corecipient of the Chauvenet Prize from the MAA and in that year was also awarded the Sidney Fernbach Award from the IEEE Computer Society. His research spans computational mathematics and high-performance computing. He is the author (with Jonathan Borwein and, for volume two, Roland Girgensohn) of two recent books on experimental mathematics.

Jonathan M. Borwein

JONATHAN M. BORWEIN received his DPhil from Oxford (1974) as a Rhodes Scholar. He taught at Dalhousie, Carnegie-Mellon, and Waterloo, before becoming the Shrum Professor of Science and a Canada Research Chair in Information Technology at Simon Fraser University. At SFU he was founding director of the Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics. In 2004, he rejoined Dalhousie University in the faculty of computer science. Jonathan has received several awards, including the 1993 Chauvenet Prize of the MAA, Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada, and Fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His research spans computational number theory and optimization theory, as well as numerous topics in computer science. He is the author of ten books and is cofounder of Math Resources, Inc., an educational software firm.

Vishaal Kapoor

VISHAAL KAPOORgraduated from Simon Fraser University with a B.S. degree in mathematics and is currently completing his M.S. at the University of British Columbia under the supervision of Greg Martin.

Eric W. Weisstein

ERIC W. WEISSTEIN graduated from Cornell University, with a B.A. degree in physics, and from the California Institute of Technology (M.S., 1993; Ph.D., 1996) with degrees in planetary astronomy. Upon completion of his doctoral thesis, Weisstein became a research scientist in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Since 1999 he has been a member of the Scientific Information group at Wolfram Research, where he holds the official title “Encyclopedist.” Eric is best known as the author of the MathWorld website http://mathword.wolfram.com., an online compendium of mathematical knowledge, as well as the author of the CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics.