Mathematician:Jones

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Jones may refer to:

William Jones $($$\text {1675}$ – $\text {1749}$$)$

Welsh mathematician who has recently come to notice for being the first to use the symbol $\pi$ (pi) in print to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.

Close friend of Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley.

On his death, left behind him a library of about $15 \, 000$ books, which was probably the most valuable library of mathematics in England. This has only recently been fully dispersed.
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Douglas Samuel Jones $($$\text {1922}$ – $\text {2013}$$)$

English mathematician known for his work in the field of electromagnetism.
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C.B. Jones

Author of:

• 1984: An Early Program Proof by Alan Turing (Ann. Hist. Comput. Vol. 6: pp. 139 – 143) (with F.L. Morris)

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M.F. Jones

Author of:

• Jan. 1967: Statistics on Certain Large Primes (Math. Comp. Vol. 21, no. 97: pp. 103 – 107) (with M. Lal and W.J. Blundon)  www.jstor.org/stable/2003476

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