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Acta Numerica 1998

Acta Numerica 1998

Acta Numerica 1998

Volume 7:
Arieh Iserles, University of Cambridge
August 2011
7
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9780521157650
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    Acta Numerica is an annual volume presenting substantive survey articles in numerical analysis and scientific computing. The subjects and authors are chosen by a distinguished international editorial board so as to report the most important developments in the subject in a manner accessible to the wider community of professionals with an interest in scientific computing.

    • Reports the very important developments in the subject
    • Survey topics and their authors are chosen by the editors
    • All authors are briefed to write in a manner accessible to all scientific computing professionals

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    "...a series of excellent yearly surveys of methods and progress in particular fields of numerical analysis, written by well-known specialists in these areas." Monatshefte fur Mathematik

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    August 2011
    Paperback
    9780521157650
    384 pages
    244 × 170 × 20 mm
    0.61kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo methods Russel E. Caflish
    • 2. Nonlinear approximation Ronald A. DeVore
    • 3. Relative Perturbation results for matrix eigenvalues and singular values Ilse C. F. Ipsen
    • 4. Stability for time-dependent differential equations Heinz-Otto Kreiss and Jens Lorenz
    • 5. Direct search algorithms for optimization calculations M. J. D. Powell
    • 6. Choice of norms for data fitting and function approximation G. A. Watson.
      Contributors
    • Russel E. Caflish, Ronald A. DeVore, Ilse C. F. Ipsen, Heinz-Otto Kreiss, Jens Lorenz, M. J. D. Powell, G. A. Watson

    • Editor
    • Arieh Iserles , University of Cambridge