Daisuke Takahashi (mathematician)

Daisuke Takahashi
高橋大介
OccupationsMathematician, professor, researcher
Organizations
Known forHolds several records on the number of digits in the approximation of Pi, including 2.576 trillion digits of Pi and 100 quadrillionth hexadecimal digit of Pi
Board member of
Awards
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo
Academic work
DisciplineComputer science
Sub-disciplineHigh-performance numerical computing, Max-Plus algebra, soliton, Nonlinear system, ultradiscretization, ultradiscrete, integrable system, difference equation, cellular automaton
InstitutionsUniversity of Tsukuba
Notable studentsEmma Haruka Iwao
Websitewww.hpcs.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/~daisuke/index.html

Daisuke Takahashi is a professor of computer science at the University of Tsukuba,[1] specializing in high-performance numerical computing.

Education and career

Takahashi received a bachelor's degree in engineering in 1993 and a master's degree in engineering in 1995, both from Toyohashi University of Technology. He completed a Ph.D. in information science from the University of Tokyo in 1999. After working as a researcher at the University of Tokyo and at Saitama University, he joined the University of Tsukuba in 2001.[2]

Research

Takahashi's works include several records of the number of digits of the approximation of Pi.[3] His work on the computation of Pi has inspired his former student Emma Haruka Iwao, who broke a new record on March 14, 2019.[4]

In 2011, he was part of a team from the University of Tsukuba that won the Gordon Bell Prize of the Association for Computing Machinery for their work simulating the quantum states of a nanowire using the K computer.[5]

He is also known for his research on the Fast Fourier transform,[6][7][8] and is one of the developers of the HPC Challenge Benchmark.[9]

Selected works

Book

  • Takahashi, Daisuke (5 October 2019). Fast Fourier Transform Algorithms for Parallel Computers. Springer Nature. ISBN 978-981-13-9965-7.

Papers

References