John Knox

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Who is John Knox?

John Knox is a meteorologist who researches clear-air turbulence and who also received media attention for discussing ways of calculating the mathematical constant e, together with inventor Harlan J. Brothers.

Knox grew up in Birmingham, AL, where as a high-school senior at Huffman High in Birmingham he was honored as a U.S. Presidential Scholar. He went to college at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and received his Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was a post-doctoral fellow at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and taught meteorology at Valparaiso University in Indiana before moving to the University of Georgia in 2001.

In 1997, Brothers sent some college-level expression for e to National Public Radio's program "Science Friday". Knox's wife Pam, an intern at "Science Friday" during Knox's post-doc at NASA/GISS, told them to Knox, who confirmed them. Together, they derived several formulae to calculate e. The formulae involve applying Bernoulli's standard result that ⁿ approximates e when n becomes large, to the formula, which is the basis of the popular bilinear transform.

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  • University of Alabama at Birmingham

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on July 23, 2013

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