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Numerical Methods that Work
About this Title
Forman S. Acton, Princeton University, Emeritus
Publication: Spectrum
Publication Year:
1990; Volume 2
ISBN: 978-1-4704-5727-3 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/002
Table of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Articles
- THE RAILROAD RAIL PROBLEM—AN ESSENTIAL PREREQUISITE
- THE CALCULATION OF FUNCTIONS
- ROOTS OF TRANSCENDENTAL EQUATIONS
- INTERPOLATION—AND ALL THAT!
- QUADRATURE
- ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS—INITIAL CONDITIONS
- ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS—BOUNDARY CONDITIONS
- STRATEGY VERSUS TACTICS—ROOTS OF POLYNOMIALS
- EIGENVALUES I
- FOURIER SERIES
PART II—DOUBLE TROUBLE
- THE EVALUATION OF INTEGRALS
- POWER SERIES, CONTINUED FRACTIONS, AND RATIONAL APPROXIMATIONS
- ECONOMIZATION OF APPROXIMATIONS
- EIGENVALUES II—ROTATIONAL METHODS
- ROOTS OF EQUATIONS—AGAIN
- THE CARE AND TREATMENT OF SINGULARITIES
- INSTABILITY IN EXTRAPOLATION
- MINIMUM METHODS
- LAPLACE’S EQUATION—AN OVERVIEW
- NETWORK PROBLEMS