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The Borwein brothers, pi and the AGM. (English) Zbl 1437.11001

Bailey, David H. (ed.) et al., From analysis to visualization. A celebration of the life and legacy of Jonathan M. Borwein, Callaghan, Australia, September 25–29, 2017. Cham: Springer. Springer Proc. Math. Stat. 313, 323-347 (2020).
Summary: We consider some of J. M. Borwein and P. B. Borwein’ contributions to the high-precision computation of \(\pi\) and the elementary functions, with particular reference to their book [Pi and the AGM. A study in analytic number theory and computational complexity. New York, NY: John Wiley (1987; Zbl 0611.10001)]. Here “AGM” is the arithmetic-geometric mean of Gauss and Legendre. Because the AGM converges quadratically, it can be combined with fast multiplication algorithms to give fast algorithms for the \(n\)-bit computation of \(\pi\), and more generally the elementary functions. These algorithms run in “almost linear” time \(O(M(n)\log n)\), where \(M(n)\) is the time for \(n\)-bit multiplication. We outline some of the results and algorithms given in Pi and the AGM, and present some related (but new) results. In particular, we improve the published error bounds for some quadratically and quartically convergent algorithms for \(\pi\), such as the Gauss-Legendre algorithm. We show that an iteration of the Borwein-Borwein quartic algorithm for \(\pi\) is equivalent to two iterations of the Gauss-Legendre quadratic algorithm for \(\pi \), in the sense that they produce exactly the same sequence of approximations to \(\pi\) if performed using exact arithmetic.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1442.00024].

MSC:

11-03 History of number theory
11Y60 Evaluation of number-theoretic constants
01A70 Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies
33E05 Elliptic functions and integrals
11Y16 Number-theoretic algorithms; complexity
65B99 Acceleration of convergence in numerical analysis
68Q25 Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity

Biographic References:

Borwein, Jonathan; Borwein, Peter

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Zbl 0611.10001

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