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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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REVIEWS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF TABLES AND BOOKS

Review information:

Journal: Math. Comp. 74 (2005), 1033-1052
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-04-01757-0
Published electronically: November 22, 2004
Review copyright: © Copyright 2004 American Mathematical Society
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Report on global methods for combinatorial isoperimetric problems, by L. H. Harper
Additional book information: Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics,vol. 90, Cambridge University Press, 2004, xiv+231 pp., ISBN 0-521-83268-3, $60.00$, hardcover
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 05C35, 90C27, 52B60

Reviewed by: Igor Shparlinski
Email: igor@comp.mq.edu.au
Adaptive finite element methods for differential equations, by Wolfgang Bangerth and Rolf Rannacher
Additional book information: Lectures in Mathematics ETH Z\"{u}rich, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, 2003, viii+207 pp., ISBN 3-7643-7009-2, EUR 22.00/SF 35.00, softcover
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 65L60, 65L70, 65M60, 65Nxx, 74S05, 76M10

Reviewed by: Endre Suli
Affiliation: University of Oxford
Automatic sequences Theory applications generalizations, by Jean-Paul Allouche and Jeffrey Shallit
Additional book information: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003, xvi+571 pp., ISBN 0-521-82332-3, $50.00$
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 11B85, 11Z05, 37A45, 37B10, 68Q45, 68R15, 94A45

Reviewed by: Alf van der Poorten
Affiliation: Centre for Number Theory Research 1 Bimbil Place, Killara Sydney, NSW 2071, Australia
Email: alf@math.mq.edu.au
Practical extrapolation methods theory and applications, by Avram Sidi
Additional book information: Cambridge Monographs on Applied and Computational Mathematics,vol. 10, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003, xxii+519 pp., ISBN 0-521-66159-5, $95.00$
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 40A05, 40A10, 40A25, 40A30, 40B05, 40G05, 41A20, 41A21, 41A25, 41A55, 41A58, 41A60, 65B05, 65B10, 65B15, 65D25, 65D30, 65R10, 65R20

Reviewed by: David Levin
Affiliation: Tel Aviv University
The Lanczos method evolution and application, by Louis Komzsik
Additional book information: Software, Environments, and Tools,vol. 15, SIAM, Philadelphia, PA, 2003, xii+87 pp., ISBN 0-89871-537-7, $42.00$
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 65F15, 65F50

Reviewed by: Karl Meerbergen
Finite element methods for Maxwell s equations, by Peter Monk
Additional book information: Numerical Mathematics and Scientific Computation, Oxford University Press, New York, 2003, xiv+450 pp., ISBN 0-19-850888-3, $119.50$, hardcover
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 65N30, 78A25, 78M10

Reviewed by: Ronald H. W. Hoppe
Affiliation: University of Houston University of Augsburg
Higher-order finite element methods, by Pavel Solín, Karel Segeth and Ivo Dolezel
Additional book information: Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2004, xxii+382 pp., ISBN 1-58488-438-X, $89.95$, hardcover
with 1 CD-ROM (Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, and LINUX)
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 65N30, 65N12, 65N15

Reviewed by: Raytcho Lazarov
Affiliation: Department of MathematicsTexas A&M UniversityCollege Station, Texas
Journal: Math. Comp. 74 (2005), 1033-1052
Published electronically: November 22, 2004
Review copyright: © Copyright 2004 American Mathematical Society