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David H. Bailey

David H. Bailey is a mathematician who, together with Yasumasa Kanada[?], Jonathan Borwein[?] and Peter Borwein[?], used iterative modular equation approximations to elliptic integrals and a NEC SX-2[?] supercomputer to compute π to 134 million decimal places in 1987.

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