Jacques Dutka
Harold Jacques Dutka, (1919 - 2002 [1])
an American mathematician with a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1943 on Transversality in Higher Space [2].
Dutka first calculated the Square root of 2 to more than one million digits [3].
Starting with a rough approximation of the root derived from the Pell's equation, Dutka devised a special algorithm for that calculation .
First CC Tournament Director
At the First United States Computer Chess Championship 1970 in New York, Jacques Dutka served as tournament director [4].
ACM 1970 round 1: Chess 3.0 - Coko III, from left: Jacques Dutka (Tournament Director), unknown,
Keith Gorlen operating Chess 3.0, Monty Newborn, Steven M. Bellovin with phone, unknown back of head [5]
Selected Publications
- Jacques Dutka (1944). Transversality in Higher Space. Ph.D. thesis, Columbia University [6]
- Jacques Dutka (1971). The Square Root of 2 to 1,000,000 Decimals. Mathematics of Computation, Vol 25, No. 116, pdf
- Jacques Dutka (1986). On square roots and their representations. Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Vol. 36, No. 1
- Jacques Dutka (1986). On the Problème des Ménages. The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 8
- Jacques Dutka (1988). On the St. Petersburg Paradox. Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Vol. 39, No. 1 [7]
- Jacques Dutka (1991). The Early History of the Factorial Function. Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Vol. 43, No. 3
- Jacques Dutka (2001). On the Problème des Ménages. Mathematical Conversations, Springer
External Links
References
- ↑ Jacques Dutka (Open Library)
- ↑ Jacques Dutka (1943). Transversality in Higher Space. Ph.D. thesis, Columbia University
- ↑ Jacques Dutka (1971). The Square Root of 2 to 1,000,000 Decimals. Mathematics of Computation, Vol 25, No. 116
- ↑ Special Events for Association for Computing Machinery, 25th National Conference (pdf), hosted by The Computer History Museum
- ↑ John C. Devlin (1970). Chess Computer Loses Game in a King‐Size Blunder. New York Times, September 02, 1970, Thanks to Monty Newborn for recognizing people
- ↑ Transversality in higher space (Open Library)
- ↑ St. Petersburg paradox from Wikipedia