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Journal: Math. Comp. 65, 1365-1377
DOI: 10.1090/S0025-5718-96-00755-7
PII: S 0025-5718(96)00755-7
Copyright of article: Copyright 1996, American Mathematical Society
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Finite element methods: Fifty years of the Courant element, edited by M. Krízek, P. Neittaanmäki and R. Stenberg
Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied mathematics, Vol. 164. Dekker, New York, 1994, xxii+504, $165.00
1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 65-06, 65M60, 65N30

Reviewed by: Susanne C. Brenner

The boundary function method for singular perturbation problems, by Adelaida B. Vasil'eva, Valentin F. Butuzov and Leonid V. Kalachev
SIAM Studies in Applied Mathematics, Vol. 14. SIAM, Philadelphia, PA, 1995, xiv+221, $58.50
1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 34E15, 35B25, 73U05, 78A30, 80A25, 92C20

Reviewed by: Shagi-Di Shih
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071-3036

Mathematical and numerical aspects of wave propagation, edited by Gary Cohen
SIAM, Philadelphia, PA, and INRIA, Rocquencourt, France, 1995, xiv+808, $106.00
1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 65-06, 76-06, 78-06, 35L05, 65C20

Reviewed by: Chi-Wang Shu

Differential equations with Mathematica, by Kevin R. Coombes, Brian R. Hunt, Ronald L. Lipsman, John E. Osborn and Garrett J. Stuck
Wiley, New York, 1995, vi+218, $20.95
1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 34-01, 34-04

Reviewed by: Lawrence F. Shampine
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275

The DFT: An owner's manual for the discrete Fourier transform, by William L. Briggs and Van Emden Henson
SIAM, Philadelphia, PA, 1995, xvi+434, $37.50
1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 39A05, 44A12, 65T10, 94A12

Reviewed by: Harald Niederreiter

A numerical library in C for scientists and engineers, by H. T. Lau
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1995, xviii+795, $69.95
1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 65-00, 65-04

Reviewed by: Jan Kok
Affiliation: Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, P.O. Box 94079, 1090 GB Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Approximation and Computation: A festschrift in honor of Walter Gautschi, edited by R. V. M. Zahar
International Series of Numerical Mathematics, Vol. 119. Birkhäuser, Boston, 1994, xlvi+591, $98.00
1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 01A70, 33-XX, 33C45, 41-XX, 41A55

Reviewed by: David Elliott
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia

Introduction to finite fields and their applications, by Rudolf Lidl and Harald Niederreiter
Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1994, xii+416, $44.95
1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 11Txx, 94A60, 94B60

Reviewed by: René Schoof

Prime numbers and computer methods for factorization, by Hans Riesel
Progress in Mathematics, Vol. 126, Birkhäuser, Boston, 1994, xvi+464, $69.50
1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 11-02, 11Y05, 11Y11, 11Y16, 11Y35, 11Y40

Reviewed by: S. S. Wagstaff Jr.
Affiliation: Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907


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