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Ludolph van Ceulen (, ; 28 January 1540 – 31 December 1610) was a German-Dutch mathematician from Hildesheim. He emigrated to the Netherlands. Van Ceulen moved to Delft to teach fencing and mathematics. In 1594 he opened a fencing school in Leiden. In 1600 he was appointed the first professor of mathematics at Leiden University. He died in Leiden. == Calculating == Ludolph van Ceulen spent a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant , using essentially the same methods as those employed by Archimedes some seventeen hundred years earlier. He published a 20-decimal value in his 1596 book ''Van den Circkel'' ("On the Circle"), later expanding this to 35 decimals. After his death, the "Ludolphine number", :3.14159265358979323846264338327950288..., was engraved on his tombstone in Leiden. The tombstone was eventually lost, but later restored in 2000. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ludolph van Ceulen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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