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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.

ISSN 1088-6842 (online) ISSN 0025-5718 (print)

The 2020 MCQ for Mathematics of Computation is 1.78.

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References
    See E. T. Whittaker & G. Robinson, The Calculus of Observations, third ed., London, 1940.
  • D. H. Lehmer, The Graeffe process as applied to power series, Math. Tables Aids Comput. 1 (1945), 377–383. MR 12913, DOI 10.1090/S0025-5718-1945-0012913-8
  • C. Runge & H. König, Vorlesungen ĂĽber numerisches Rechnen, Berlin, 1924. The method was given earlier in C. Runge, Praxis der Gleichungen (Sammlung Schubert), Leipzig, 1900. S. Brodetsky & G. Smeal, “On Graeffe’s method for complex roots of algebraic equations,” Camb. Phil. So., Proc., v. 22, 1924, p. 83f. A. Ostrowski, “Sur la continuitĂ© relative des racines d’équations algĂ©briques,” AcadĂ©mie d. Sci., Paris, Comptes Rendus, v. 209, 1939, p. 777f, has illustrated this very forcibly by comparison of ${z^4} - 4{z^3} + 6{z^2} - 4z + 1 = 0$, roots 1, 1, 1, 1; with ${z^4} - 4{z^3} + 5.999951{z^2} - 4z + 1 = 0$, roots 1.0872, .9198, .9965 $\pm$ .0836i.
  • Shih-nge Lin, A method for finding roots of algebraic equations, J. Math. Phys. Mass. Inst. Tech. 22 (1943), 60–77. MR 8709, DOI 10.1002/sapm194322160
  • A. P. Hillman and H. E. Salzer, Roots of $\sin z=z$, Philos. Mag. (7) 34 (1943), 575. MR 8710
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  • © Copyright 1946 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Math. Comp. 2 (1946), 55-61
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-46-99631-7