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Adriaan van Roomen

was born 464 years ago

29 September 1561

Adriaan van Roomen or Adrianus Romanus was a Flemish mathematician who calculated π to 16 decimal places using Archimedes' method.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Roomen/