Eugene Salamin is a
mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
On ...
who discovered (independently with
Richard Brent) the
Salamin–Brent algorithm, used in high-precision calculation of
pi.
Eugene Salamin worked on alternatives to increase accuracy and minimize computational processes through the use of
quaternion
In mathematics, the quaternion number system extends the complex numbers. Quaternions were first described by the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton in 1843 and applied to mechanics in three-dimensional space. Hamilton defined a quatern ...
s.
Benefits may include:
# the design of
spatio-temporal database
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* Tracking of moving objects, which typically can occupy only a single position at a given time.
* A database of wireless communication n ...
s;
# numerical mathematical methods that traditionally prove unsuccessful due to buildup of computational error;
# therefore, may be applied to applications involving
genetic algorithm
In computer science and operations research, a genetic algorithm (GA) is a metaheuristic inspired by the process of natural selection that belongs to the larger class of evolutionary algorithms (EA). Genetic algorithms are commonly used to gene ...
s and
evolutionary computation
In computer science, evolutionary computation is a family of algorithms for global optimization inspired by biological evolution, and the subfield of artificial intelligence and soft computing studying these algorithms. In technical terms, they ...
, in general.
Publications
See also
*
HAKMEM
HAKMEM, alternatively known as AI Memo 239, is a February 1972 "memo" (technical report) of the MIT AI Lab containing a wide variety of hacks, including useful and clever algorithms for mathematical computation, some number theory and schematic ...
References
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20th-century American mathematicians
Year of birth missing