From dilcher@cs.dal.ca Wed Aug 28 19:58:31 1996 Received: from cs.dal.ca (root@cs.dal.ca [129.173.4.5]) by euclid.math.temple.edu (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA16125 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 19:58:29 -0400 (EDT) Posted-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 19:58:29 -0400 (EDT) Received-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 19:58:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: by cs.dal.ca id <27986>; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 20:58:08 -0300 Subject: Chauvenet Prize From: Karl Dilcher To: andrews@math.psu.edu Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 20:58:00 -0300 Cc: zeilberg@euclid.math.temple.edu, jborwein@cecm.sfu.ca, kuperberg-greg@math.yale.edu, foda@maths.mu.oz.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <96Aug28.205808adt.27986@cs.dal.ca> Status: RO Dear George: I just discovered a copy of your e-mail correspondence with Doron Zeilberger (of early March '96) on the "web", along with a few remarks from some other correspondence; I copy this note to all. While I am quite pleased that the paper I co-authored with Jon and Peter Borwein is considered "Chauvenet material" by you and your correspondents, I must point out that you are only 2/3 correct, as far as authors are concerned. The B-B-D paper in question did not win a prize; the 1993 Chauvenet Prize for Expository Writing was awarded to Jon Borwein, Peter Borwein, and David H. Bailey, for their paper "Ramanujan, Modular Equations, and Approximations to Pi, or How to Compute One Billion Digits of Pi", Amer. Math. Monthly 96 (1989), no. 3, 201--219. (see the MAA "Focus", April 1993). A beautiful paper, and I doubt that _it_ can be reduced to a one-line proof. But I don't want to get into that; anyway, I found the correspondence surrounding the B-B-D paper most interesting. With best regards, Karl. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Dilcher | e-mail : dilcher@cs.dal.ca Dept of Math. Stats. and C.S. | telephone : (902) 494-3784 (office) Dalhousie University | telephone : (902) 494-2572 (main office) Halifax, N.S., B3H 3J5 | telephone : (902) 422-3511 (home) Canada | FAX : (902) 494-5130 (main office) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------