David H. Bailey

David Harold Bailey ( born August 14, 1948) is an American mathematician and computer scientist.

After graduating from Brigham Young University (1972 ), he earned his doctorate in 1976 at Donald Ornstein at Stanford University with the work Sequential Schemes for Classifying and Predicting Ergodic Processes.

He worked for 14 years as a computer scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center. There he developed an interpreter and a program library, which allowed existing FORTRAN programs with selectable often increased numerical accuracy execute. Since 1998 he is the Chief Technologist of the Computational Research Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as an expert on mainframes and supercomputing.

Together with Peter Borwein and Simon Plouffe 1996, he was with the publication of the BBP series is known for. This series was performed using the PSLQ algorithm for finding an integer linear dependence ( integer relationship) discovered a given real numbers. The PSLQ algorithm was developed in 1992 by Bailey and Helaman Ferguson.

Bailey has worked for many years with Jonathan Borwein (brother of Peter Borwein ). They are co-authors of numerous articles and three books on experimental mathematics.

He is the recipient of the Chauvenet Prize and the Merten Hasse price of the Mathematical Association of America. In 2008 he was awarded the Gordon Bell Prize of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Works

  • Bailey, Robert F. Lucas, Samuel Williams ( eds.): Performance tuning of scientific applications. Chapman & Hall / CRC Computational Science Series, CRC Press 2010, ISBN 9,781,439,815,694th
  • Bailey, Jonathan Borwein, Neil Calkin, Roland Girgensohn, D. Russell Luke, Victor Moll: Experimental mathematics in action, AK Peters 2007
  • Bailey, Jonathan Borwein, Roland Girgensohn: Experimentation in mathematics: computational paths to discovery, AK Peters 2004
  • Bailey, Jonathan Borwein: Mathematics by experiment: plausible reasoning in the 21st century, AK Peters 2004, 2008 (this was published in 2006 an updated CD Edition Experiments in Mathematics )
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