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Mathematics of Computation
Journal of the American Mathematical Society
ISSN 1088-6842(e) ISSN 0025-5718(p)
     

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Journal: Math. Comp. 65, 1757 - 1768
DOI:
10.1090/S0025-5718-96-00783-1
PII:
S 0025-5718(96)00783-1
Copyright of article: Copyright 1996, American Mathematical Society
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Numerical analysis: A first course in scientific computation, by Peter Deuflhard and Andreas Hohmann
(translated from the German by F. A. Potra and F. Schulz), Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1995, xiv+355, hardcover $69.95, paperback $39.95
1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 65-01, 65Bxx, 65Cxx, 65Dxx, 65Fxx, 65Gxx

Reviewed by: Eugene Isaacson



Multigrid methods for semiconductor device simulation, by J. Molenaar, CWI Tract
CWI Tract, Vol. 100, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, 1993, vi+134, softcover, Dfl. 40.00
1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 65N30, 65N50, 65N55, 82D99

Reviewed by: Michael Holst
Affiliation: Applied Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125

Asymptotic methods for elastic structures, edited by Philippe G. Ciarlet, Luís Trabucho and Juan M. Viaño
de Gruyter, New York, 1995, viii+297, $128.95
1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 73-06, 73K05, 73K10, 73K15, 73V25

Reviewed by: Richard S. Falk

Handbook on splines for the user, by Eugene V. Shikin and Alexander I. Plis
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1995, xii+221, $69.95
1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 65-00, 65-04, 41-00, 41-04, 41A15

Reviewed by: Ewald Quak
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843-3368

A primer for the Monte Carlo method, by Ilya M. Sobol'
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1994, xx+107, softcover, $41.95
1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 65-01, 65C05, 65C10

Reviewed by: Harald Niederreiter

An introduction to scientific, symbolic, and graphical computation, by Eugene Fiume
A K Peters, Wellesley, MA, 1995, xvi+306, $49.95
1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 65-01, 68-01, 68U05

Reviewed by: Daniel W. Lozier

High performance computing---Problem solving with parallel and vector architectures, edited by Gary W. Sabot
Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1995, xvi+246, $45.14
1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 65-02, 65Yxx

Reviewed by: Elias N. Houstis
Affiliation: Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1398

LAPACK Users' guide, by E. Anderson, Z. Bai, C. Bischof, J. Demmel, J. Dongarra, J. du Croz, A. Greenbaum, S. Hammarling, A. McKenney, S. Ostrouchov and D. Sorensen, second edition
SIAM, Philadelphia, PA, 1995, xx+325, softcover, $28.50
1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 65F05, 65F15, 65F20, 65F35, 65Y05, 65Y20, 65Y99

Reviewed by: Xiao-Chuan Cai
Affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309

The Maple V handbook, by Martha L. Abell and James P. Braselton
AP Professional, Boston, MA, 1994, viii+726, softcover, $39.95
1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 00A20, 68Q40

Reviewed by: Douglas B. Meade
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208

Arithmetic of algebraic curves, by Serguei A. Stepanov
(translated from Russian by Irene Aleksanova), Monographs in Contemporary Mathematics, Consultants Bureau, New York, 1994, xiv+422, $115.00
1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 11-02, 11Gxx

Reviewed by: F. Beukers
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Utrecht, Budapestlaan 6, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands


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