Claude Brezinski - Böcker

This book explores the use of the concept of biorthogonality and discusses the various recurrence relations for the generalizations of the method of moments, the method of Lanczos, and the biconjugate gradient method. It is helpful for researchers in numerical analysis and approximation theory.

The main objective of this volume is to create a bridge between control theory and its numerical analysis aspects. The book combines an exposition of linear control theory and the corresponding modern relevant computational techniques such as orthogonal polynomials, Pade approximation, numerical linear algebra, and some topics on nonlinear differential equations. It can be considered as an introduction to control theory for numerical analysts looking for a wide area of applications and as an introduction to recent numerical methods for control specialists.

Many devices (we say dynamical systems or simply systems) behave like black boxes: they receive an input, this input is transformed following some laws (usually a differential equation) and an output is observed. The problem is to regulate the input in order to control the output, that is for obtaining a desired output. Such a mechanism, where the input is modified according to the output measured, is called feedback. The study and design of such automatic processes is called control theory. As we will see, the term system embraces any device and control theory has a wide variety of applications in the real world. Control theory is an interdisci­ plinary domain at the junction of differential and difference equations, system theory and statistics. Moreover, the solution of a control problem involves many topics of numerical analysis and leads to many interesting computational problems: linear algebra (QR, SVD, projections, Schur complement, structured matrices, localization of eigenvalues, computation of the rank, Jordan normal form, Sylvester and other equations, systems of linear equations, regulariza­ tion, etc), root localization for polynomials, inversion of the Laplace transform, computation of the matrix exponential, approximation theory (orthogonal poly­ nomials, Pad6 approximation, continued fractions and linear fractional transfor­ mations), optimization, least squares, dynamic programming, etc. So, control theory is also a. good excuse for presenting various (sometimes unrelated) issues of numerical analysis and the procedures for their solution. This book is not a book on control.

Walter Gautschi has written extensively on topics ranging from special functions, quadrature and orthogonal polynomials to difference and differential equations, software implementations, and the history of mathematics. He is world renowned for his pioneering work in numerical analysis and constructive orthogonal polynomials, including a definitive textbook in the former, and a monograph in the latter area.This three-volume set, Walter Gautschi: Selected Works with Commentaries, is a compilation of Gautschi’s most influential papers and includes commentaries by leading experts. The work begins with a detailed biographical section and ends with a section commemorating Walter’s prematurely deceased twin brother. This title will appeal to graduate students and researchers in numerical analysis, as well as to historians of science. Selected Works with Commentaries, Vol. 1Numerical ConditioningSpecial FunctionsInterpolation and Approximation Selected Works with Commentaries, Vol. 2Orthogonal Polynomials on the Real LineOrthogonal Polynomials on the SemicircleChebyshev QuadratureKronrod and Other QuadraturesGauss-type Quadrature Selected Works with Commentaries, Vol. 3Linear Difference EquationsOrdinary Differential EquationsSoftwareHistory and BiographyMiscellaneaWorks of Werner Gautschi

Walter Gautschi has written extensively on topics ranging from special functions, quadrature and orthogonal polynomials to difference and differential equations, software implementations, and the history of mathematics. He is world renowned for his pioneering work in numerical analysis and constructive orthogonal polynomials, including a definitive textbook in the former, and a monograph in the latter area.  This three-volume set, Walter Gautschi: Selected Works with Commentaries, is a compilation of Gautschi’s most influential papers and includes commentaries by leading experts. The work begins with a detailed biographical section and ends with a section commemorating Walter’s prematurely deceased twin brother. This title will appeal to graduate students and researchers in numerical analysis, as well as to historians of science. Selected Works with Commentaries, Vol. 1Numerical ConditioningSpecial FunctionsInterpolation and Approximation Selected Works with Commentaries, Vol. 2Orthogonal Polynomials on the Real LineOrthogonal Polynomials on the SemicircleChebyshev QuadratureKronrod and Other QuadraturesGauss-type Quadrature Selected Works with Commentaries, Vol. 3Linear Difference EquationsOrdinary Differential EquationsSoftwareHistory and BiographyMiscellaneaWorks of Werner Gautschi

Walter Gautschi has written extensively on topics ranging from special functions, quadrature and orthogonal polynomials to difference and differential equations, software implementations, and the history of mathematics. He is world renowned for his pioneering work in numerical analysis and constructive orthogonal polynomials, including a definitive textbook in the former, and a monograph in the latter area.  This three-volume set, Walter Gautschi: Selected Works with Commentaries, is a compilation of Gautschi’s most influential papers and includes commentaries by leading experts. The work begins with a detailed biographical section and ends with a section commemorating Walter’s prematurely deceased twin brother. This title will appeal to graduate students and researchers in numerical analysis, as well as to historians of science. Selected Works with Commentaries, Vol. 1Numerical ConditioningSpecial FunctionsInterpolation and Approximation Selected Works with Commentaries, Vol. 2Orthogonal Polynomials on the Real LineOrthogonal Polynomials on the SemicircleChebyshev QuadratureKronrod and Other QuadraturesGauss-type Quadrature Selected Works with Commentaries, Vol. 3Linear Difference EquationsOrdinary Differential EquationsSoftwareHistory and BiographyMiscellaneaWorks of Werner Gautschi

Walter Gautschi has written extensively on topics ranging from special functions, quadrature and orthogonal polynomials to difference and differential equations, software implementations, and the history of mathematics. He is world renowned for his pioneering work in numerical analysis and constructive orthogonal polynomials, including a definitive textbook in the former, and a monograph in the latter area.This three-volume set, Walter Gautschi: Selected Works with Commentaries, is a compilation of Gautschi’s most influential papers and includes commentaries by leading experts. The work begins with a detailed biographical section and ends with a section commemorating Walter’s prematurely deceased twin brother. This title will appeal to graduate students and researchers in numerical analysis, as well as to historians of science. Selected Works with Commentaries, Vol. 1Numerical ConditioningSpecial FunctionsInterpolation and Approximation Selected Works with Commentaries, Vol. 2Orthogonal Polynomials on the Real LineOrthogonal Polynomials on the SemicircleChebyshev QuadratureKronrod and Other QuadraturesGauss-type Quadrature Selected Works with Commentaries, Vol. 3Linear Difference EquationsOrdinary Differential EquationsSoftwareHistory and BiographyMiscellaneaWorks of Werner Gautschi

Walter Gautschi has written extensively on topics ranging from special functions, quadrature and orthogonal polynomials to difference and differential equations, software implementations, and the history of mathematics.

Walter Gautschi has written extensively on topics ranging from special functions, quadrature and orthogonal polynomials to difference and differential equations, software implementations, and the history of mathematics. He is world renowned for his pioneering work in numerical analysis and constructive orthogonal polynomials, including a definitive textbook in the former, and a monograph in the latter area.  This three-volume set, Walter Gautschi: Selected Works with Commentaries, is a compilation of Gautschi’s most influential papers and includes commentaries by leading experts. The work begins with a detailed biographical section and ends with a section commemorating Walter’s prematurely deceased twin brother. This title will appeal to graduate students and researchers in numerical analysis, as well as to historians of science. Selected Works with Commentaries, Vol. 1Numerical ConditioningSpecial FunctionsInterpolation and Approximation Selected Works with Commentaries, Vol. 2Orthogonal Polynomials on the Real LineOrthogonal Polynomials on the SemicircleChebyshev QuadratureKronrod and Other QuadraturesGauss-type Quadrature Selected Works with Commentaries, Vol. 3Linear Difference EquationsOrdinary Differential EquationsSoftwareHistory and BiographyMiscellaneaWorks of Werner Gautschi

This expansive volume describes the history of numerical methods proposed to solve linear algebra problems,, from antiquity to the present day. The authors focus on methods for solving linear systems of equations and eigenvalue problems and describe the interplay between numerical methods and the computing tools available at the time. The second part of the book consists of 78 biographies of the main important contributors to the field.A Journey through the History of Numerical Linear Algebra will be of special interest to applied mathematicians, especially researchers in numerical linear algebra, and to applied mathematiciansas well as to and historians of mathematics as well.

The shape of the Earth was a significant scientific question in the eighteenth century. When it was discovered that the Earth was flattened at the poles, scientists sought to understand the cause, leading to the study of the gravitational attraction of celestial spheroids. The solution drew upon Newton’s law of universal gravitation, which used the distance between two bodies based on the law of cosines. Expanding the inverse of this distance into a power series naturally leads to a class of orthogonal polynomials. These were introduced by Legendre and, a little bit later, by Laplace. Legendre was the first to prove their orthogonality. Thirty years later, Gauss, approaching the problem from the perspective of numerical quadrature, independently arrived at the same polynomials. Over time, as concern for the gravitational problem of spheroids waned, the intrinsic mathematical interest in orthogonal polynomials took precedence.The Birth and Early Developments of Orthogonal Polynomials: A Chronological History is the first book to describe the history of orthogonal polynomials, covering their birth and early developments from the end of the 18th century to the middle of the 20th century. It includes biographies of principal and lesser-known figures, anecdotes, and accounts of the countries and institutions involved.The book will appeal to researchers and students in applied mathematics, mathematical analysis, special functions, and orthogonal polynomials as well as to those interested in the history of mathematics and the sciences.

This book paints a fresco of the field of extrapolation and rational approximation over the last several centuries to the present through the works of their primary contributors.

This book paints a fresco of the field of extrapolation and rational approximation over the last several centuries to the present through the works of their primary contributors.

Walter Gautschi has written extensively on topics ranging from special functions, quadrature and orthogonal polynomials to difference and differential equations, software implementations, and the history of mathematics. He is world renowned for his pioneering work in numerical analysis and constructive orthogonal polynomials, including a definitive textbook in the former, and a monograph in the latter area.This four-volume set, Walter Gautschi: Selected Works with Commentaries, is a compilation of Gautschi’s most influential papers and includes commentaries by leading experts. The work begins with a detailed biographical section, and Part III includes a section commemorating Walter’s prematurely deceased twin brother, Werner. This title will appeal to graduate students and researchers in numerical analysis, as well as to historians of science.Selected Works with Commentaries, Vol. 1Numerical ConditioningSpecial FunctionsInterpolation and ApproximationSelected Works with Commentaries, Vol. 2Orthogonal Polynomials on the Real LineOrthogonal Polynomials on the SemicircleChebyshev QuadratureKronrod and Other QuadraturesGauss-type QuadratureSelected Works with Commentaries, Vol. 3Linear Difference EquationsOrdinary Differential EquationsSoftwareHistory and BiographyMiscellaneaWorks of Werner GautschiSelected Works with Commentaries, Vol. 4Special Functions Approximation Orthogonal Polynomials on the Real Line Gauss-type Quadrature Ordinary Differential Equations History Miscellanea

This book traces the life of Cholesky (1875-1918), and gives his family history. Then, an important unpublished book of Cholesky on graphical calculation is analyzed in detail and compared to similar contemporary publications. Various documents, highlighting the life and the personality of Cholesky, end the book.

This book traces the life of Cholesky (1875-1918), and gives his family history. After an introduction to topography, an English translation of an unpublished paper by him where he explained his method for linear systems is given, studied and replaced in its historical context. His other works, including two books, are also described as well as his involvement in teaching at a superior school by correspondence. The story of this school and its founder, Léon Eyrolles, are addressed. Then, an important unpublished book of Cholesky on graphical calculation is analyzed in detail and compared to similar contemporary publications. The biography of Ernest Benoit, who wrote the first paper where Cholesky´s method is explained, is provided. Various documents, highlighting the life and the personality of Cholesky, end the book.

This text examines the concept of continued fractions which is one of the oldest in the history of mathematics. It can be traced back to Euclid's algorithm for the greatest common divisor or even earlier. Continued fractions and Pade approximants played an important role in the development of many branches of mathematics, such as the spectral theory of operators, and in the solution of famous problems, such as the quadrature of the circle.