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Ljubljana five years after graduation and entered military service in 1780 as a professor of mathematics at the Artillery School in Vienna. At that time he started to sign his last name as
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tables. The first one appeared in 1783. Much later, in 1797 it was followed by a second volume that contained a collection of integrals and other useful formulae. His
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named after Jurij Vega and its name is much older. A free open-source physics library for 3D deformable object simulation, Vega FEM, has also been named after Vega.
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and which converges faster than Machin's formula. He had checked his result with the similar Hutton's formula:
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299:Ljubljana
250:artillery
246:physicist
105:Education
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519:Handbook
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459:Mannheim
439:Belgrade
388:geometry
372:geometry
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295:Zagorica
71:Slovenia
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483:Nußdorf
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380:geodesy
364:algebra
340:science
332:history
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978:Legacy
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