Eugene Salamin (mathematician)

{{short description|American mathematician}}

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Eugene Salamin is a mathematician who discovered (independently with Richard Brent) the Salamin–Brent algorithm, used in high-precision calculation of pi.{{cite web |url=http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pi-ref.txt |title=pi-ref.doc |author=Carey Bloodworth |date=August 11, 1996 |access-date=September 10, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123193635/http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pi-ref.txt |archive-date=November 23, 2010 }}{{cite journal |title=π and its computation through the ages |last1=Gourdon |first1=Xavier |last2=Sebah |first2=Pascal |journal=Mathematics of Computation|url=http://numbers.computation.free.fr/Constants/Pi/piCompute.html#Salamin |date=August 13, 2010}}

Eugene Salamin worked on alternatives to increase accuracy and minimize computational processes through the use of quaternions.

Benefits may include:

1. the design of spatio-temporal databases;
2. numerical mathematical methods that traditionally prove unsuccessful due to buildup of computational error;
3. therefore, may be applied to applications involving genetic algorithms and evolutionary computation, in general.