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Mathematics of Computation

Published by the American Mathematical Society since 1960 (published as Mathematical Tables and other Aids to Computation 1943-1959), Mathematics of Computation is devoted to research articles of the highest quality in computational mathematics.

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The rational approximation of functions which are formally defined by a power series expansion
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  • © Copyright 1960 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Math. Comp. 14 (1960), 147-186
  • MSC: Primary 65.00; Secondary 30.00
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-1960-0116457-2
  • MathSciNet review: 0116457