Padé Approximants
The first edition of this book was reviewed in 1982 as 'the most extensive treatment of Padé approximants actually available'. This second edition has been thoroughly updated, with a substantial chapter on multiseries approximants. Applications to statistical mechanics and critical phenomena are extensively covered, and there are extended sections devoted to circuit design, matrix Pade approximation, and computational methods. This succinct and straightforward treatment will appeal to scientists, engineers, and mathematicians alike.
- Most comprehensive treatment available
- Inclusion of numerical methods
- Applications to quantum mechanics and field theory
- Fresh chapter on multiseries approximants
Reviews & endorsements
"The book is an absolute must for every starting researcher in the area of rational approximation theory....The book is written in smooth progression..." Annie A.M. Cuyt, Mathematical Reviews
Product details
March 2010Paperback
9780521135092
764 pages
234 × 156 × 38 mm
1.1kg
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction and definitions
- 2. Elementary developments
- 3. Padé approximants and numerical methods
- 4. Connection with continued fractions
- 5. Stieltjes series and Polya series
- 6. Convergence theory
- 7. Extensions of Padé approximants
- 8. Multiseries approximants
- 9. Connection with integral equations and quantum mechanics
- 10. Connection with numerical analysis
- 11. Connection with quantum field theory
- Bibliography
- Appendix: a FORTRAN program.