Jacques Dutka

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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 .

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#

• The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Jacques Dutka

References#

1. ↑ Jacques Dutka (Open Library)
2. ↑ Jacques Dutka (1943). Transversality in Higher Space. Ph.D. thesis, Columbia University
3. ↑ Jacques Dutka (1971). The Square Root of 2 to 1,000,000 Decimals. Mathematics of Computation, Vol 25, No. 116
4. ↑ Special Events for Association for Computing Machinery, 25th National Conference (pdf), hosted by The Computer History Museum
5. ↑ 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
6. ↑ Transversality in higher space (Open Library)
7. ↑ St. Petersburg paradox from Wikipedia

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