Jonathan Borwein

Jonathan Michael Borwein was a Scottish mathematician, born in St Andrews on 20 May 1951 into a Jewish family, who died on 2 August 2016 and held an appointment as Laureate Professor of mathematics at the University of Newcastle in Australia. His father David Borwein and his brother Peter Borwein were also mathematicians. He took his first degree at the University of Western Ontario in 1971 and his doctorate at Oxford in 1974 as a Rhodes Scholar. His interests ran from analysis and optimization to numerical and computational analysis and high performance computing, and he wrote ten books and over four hundred refereed articles. With David H. Bailey he was a prominent public advocate of experimental mathematics, and he was an expert on the number pi and its computation. He founded the Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics at Simon Fraser University and served as president of the Canadian Mathematical Society. He received the Chauvenet Prize in 1993 and was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2010.