biography
| name: |
Ceulen, Ludolph van
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pronunciation:
[koelen]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1540–1610)
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| biography:
| Mathematician, born in Hildesheim, NC Germany. He devoted himself to finding the value of π and finally worked it out to 35 decimal places (Ludolph's number). It was inscribed on his tombstone at Leyden. |
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