Filling a gap in the history of \(\pi\): an exciting discovery (Q311381)

The number \(\pi\) was calculated with steadily increasing precision during the 18th and 19th centuries: 100 decimal places in 1706 (John Machin), 140 places in 1789 (Jurij Vega), 205 in 1844 (Leopold von Schulz Strasznicky). In 1721, an unknown resident of Philadelphia calculated 154 decimal places but never published the result. The author of the paper under review discovered the original manuscript (a huge volume with more than 500 pages) in the main library of the University of Oxford. The calculations turned out to be correct up to the 152th place. As before nothing is known about the hero except that he (she?) lived in Philadelphia.