Jacques Dutka

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Harold Jacques Dutka, (1919 - 2002 ) an American mathematician with a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1943 on Transversality in Higher Space. Dutka first calculated the Square root of 2 to more than one million digits. 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. 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

=Selected Publications=
 * Jacques Dutka (1944). 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, 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
 * 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=
 * The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Jacques Dutka

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