Category:William Shanks

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William Shanks

Amateur calculator, school owner

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Date of birth

25 January 1812
Corsenside

Date of death

June 1882
Houghton-le-Spring

Country of citizenship

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Occupation

mathematician

Field of work

mathematics

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Media in category "William Shanks"

The following 8 files are in this category, out of 8 total.

On the Extension of the Value of the Base of Napier's Logarithms; of the Napierian Logarithms of 2, 3, 5, and 10; and of the Modulus of Briggs's, or the Common System of Logarithms (IA jstor-111262).pdf 789 × 1,222, 2 pages; 159 KB
Second Supplementary Paper on the Calculation of the Numerical Value of Euler's Constant (IA jstor-112482).pdf 789 × 1,222; 57 KB
Third Supplementary Paper on the Calculation of the Numerical Value of Euler's Constant (IA jstor-112513).pdf 975 × 1,500, 2 pages; 109 KB
On the Calculation of the Numerical Value of Euler's Constant, Which Professor Price, of Oxford, Calls E (IA jstor-112670).pdf 789 × 1,222, 4 pages; 146 KB
Fourth and Concluding Supplementary Paper on the Calculation of the Numerical Value of Euler's Constant (IA jstor-112709).pdf 789 × 1,222; 79 KB
Mechanical Pi - In memory of William Shanks.webm 1 min 1 s, 1,280 × 720; 3.56 MB
Shanks's table of primes just below 20000 and their decimal periods.png 1,005 × 473; 191 KB
William Shanks PI.png 1,079 × 214; 112 KB

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