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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 2024 MCQ for Mathematics of Computation is 1.78.

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REVIEWS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF TABLES AND BOOKS

Review information:

Journal: Math. Comp. 67 (1998), 1739-1751
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-98-01032-1
Review copyright: © Copyright 1998 American Mathematical Society
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Acta numerica, edited by A. Iserles
Additional book information: edited by A. Iserles, Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 1997, 551 pp., $60.00$, hardcover
MSC (1991): Primary 65-02

Reviewed by: Richard S. Falk
Computational differential equations, by D. Estep K. Eriksson, P. Hansbo
Additional book information: Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 1996, xvi+538 pp., $100.00$, hardcover
MSC (1991): Primary 26A06, 34A50, 35A40, 65L60, 65M60, 65N30

Reviewed by: Jeffery Cooper
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics University of Maryland College Park, Maryland 20742
Applied numerical linear algebra, by James W. Demmel
Additional book information: SIAM, Philadelphia, PA, 1997, xi+419 pp., $45.00$, softcover
MSC (1991): Primary 65-01, 65FXX

Reviewed by: David S. Watkins
Affiliation: Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics Washington State University Polman, Washington 99164-3113
Computational differentiation techniques, applicatitons, and tools, edited by Martin Berg, Christian Bischof, George Corliss and Andreas Griewank
Additional book information: edited by Martin Berg, Christian Bischof, George Corliss and Andreas Griewank, SIAM, Philadelphia, PA, 1996, xv+421 pp., $65.00$, softcover
MSC (1991): Primary 65D25

Reviewed by: Hans J. Stetter
Numerica: A modelling language for global optimization, by Laurent Michel Pascal Van Hentenryck, and Yves Deville
Additional book information: The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1997, xvii+210 pp., $25.00$, softcover
MSC (1991): Primary 65K10, 90C26

Reviewed by: R. Baker Kearfott
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics University of Southwestern Louisiana Lafayette, LA 70504
Polynomial algorithms in computer algebra, by F. Winkler
Additional book information: Springer-Verlag, Wien, New York, 1996, viii+270 pp., $69.00$, softcover
MSC (1991): Primary 68Q40

Reviewed by: Wieb Bosma
Affiliation: Vakgroep Wiskunde Universiteit van Nijmegen Postbus 9010 6500 GL Nijmegen The Netherlands
Email: wieb@sci.kun.nl
Computer algebra in industry: Problem solving in practice, edited by Arjeh M. Cohen
Additional book information: edited by Arjeh M. Cohen, Wiley, Chichester, 1993, x+252 pp., $45.00$
MSC (1991): Primary 00A69

Reviewed by: Bernard D. Rudin
Affiliation: IBM Austin Lab 4310 11400 Burnet Rd. Austin, TX 78758-3406
Journal: Math. Comp. 67 (1998), 1739-1751
Review copyright: © Copyright 1998 American Mathematical Society