Table of Contents

Complete Elliptic Integrals and the Arithmetic-Geometric MeanIteration.

Theta Functions and the Arithmetic-Geometric Mean Iteration.

Jacobi's Triple-Product and Some Number TheoreticApplications.

Higher Order Transformations.

Modular Equations and Algebraic Approximations to pi.

The Complexity of Algebraic Functions.

Algorithms for the Elementary Functions.

General Means and Iterations.

Some Additional Applications.

Other Approaches to the Elementary Functions.

Pi.

Bibliography.

Symbol List.

Index.

About the Author

Jonathan Michael Borwein was a Scottish mathematician who held an appointment as Laureate Professor of mathematics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Peter B. Borwein is the author of Pi and the AGM: A Study in Analytic Number Theory and Computational Complexity, published by Wiley.