Simon Plouffe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Simon Plouffe

Canadian mathematician

Date of Birth: 11-Jun-1956

Place of Birth: Saint-Jovite, Quebec, Canada

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: Canada, France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Simon Plouffe (born June 11, 1956, Saint-Jovite, Quebec) is a mathematician who discovered the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula (BBP algorithm) which permits the computation of the nth binary digit of p, in 1995.He co-authored The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, made into the web site On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences dedicated to integer sequences later in 1995.
In 1975, Plouffe broke the world record for memorizing digits of pi by reciting 4096 digits, a record which stood until 1977.His Inverter is a web site that contains 11.3 billion mathematical constants as of August 15, 2017.