Obituary: L. F. Richardson (1881–1953)
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L. F. Richardson, Weather Prediction by Numerical Processes. Cambridge, England, 1923. For the following comment on this, I am indebted to G. E. Forsythe, “It is a monumental attempt to forecast for six hours, from almost no initial condition, and (I understand) a poor balance of $\Delta t$ and $\Delta x,\Delta y,\Delta z$. It is superbly written and the author has (in my opinion) the most elegant English style of any mathematical writer of the century. [See p. 219 of this book, or the first page or two of C.] The Preface speaks for itself of the troubles encountered by the author."
- Wolfgang Wasow, Discrete approximations to elliptic differential equations, Z. Angew. Math. Phys. 6 (1955), 81–97. MR 80369, DOI 10.1007/BF01607295 D. M. Young, “On Richardson’s method for solving linear equations with positive definite matrices.” Jn. Math. and Physics, v. 32, 1953, p. 243-255. Experiments on the solution of the Laplace equation by this method, on ORDVAC, have been carried out by D. M. Young, and C. H. Warlick.
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- © Copyright 1954 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Math. Comp. 8 (1954), 242-245
- MSC: Primary 01.0X
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-1954-0063988-7
- MathSciNet review: 0063988