Research Catalog

Title

Science and computers : a volume dedicated to Nicholas Metropolis / edited by Gian-Carlo Rota.

Publication

• Orlando : Academic Press, Inc., [1986]
• ©1986.

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Additional Authors

Rota, Gian-Carlo, 1932-1999

Description

xi, 361 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

Nicholas Metropolis is best know for his contributions to the Monte Carlo method--including the algorithm for computerization of the calculations for same--integro-differential equations, and the development of the digital computer. The papers in this volume may be on related subjects, subjects wherein Metropolis's work served as inspiration, and as extensions of subject matter Metropolis explored.

Series Statement

Advances in mathematics. Supplementary studies ; v. 10

Uniform Title

Advances in mathematics. Supplementary studies ; v. 10.

Alternative Title

Volume dedicated to Nicholas Metropolis

Subject

• Metropolis, N. 1915-1999
• Metropolis, N. 1915-1999
• Mathematics > Data processing
• Mathematics
• Mathematics
• Mathematics > Data processing
• Teoria Da Computacao

Genre/Form

• Instructional and educational works
• Festschriften
• Instructional and educational works.
• Festschriften.
• Matériel d'éducation et de formation.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

Estimates of Hölder constants for bounded solutions of second-order quasi-linear parabolic equations of nondivergent forms / O. A. Ladyzhenskaya and N. N. Ural'ceva -- Fast eigenfunction transforms / Steven A. Orszag -- A primer on cubic maps / Y. Shimamoto -- Solving problems by random trials / E. V. Krishnamurthy -- Computability in arbitrary domains and bases / A. P. Ershov -- Homographic approximations of free boundary problems characterized by variational inequalities / C. M. Brauner, B. Nicolaenko and M. Frémond -- Theory and applications of the generalized conjugate gradient method / G. I. Marchuk and Yu. A. Kuznetsov -- A brief history of enumeration / Paul R. Stein -- A study of the Lorenz attractor / R. D. Richtmyer -- A general umbral calculus / Marlena Barnabei, Andrea Brini, and Giorgio Nicoletti -- On the random intersection of convex bodies : a geometrical entertainment with a moral on symmetry / David Hawkins -- Dating the initiation of cosmic rays in our galaxy / L. M. Libby and W. F. Libby -- A curious function of Otto Frisch / C. J. Everett and E. D. Cashwell -- Some properties of the intertwining number of the general linear group / J. D. Louck and L. C. Biedenharn -- The best polynomial approximation to (1 + [italic]x)⁻¹ in [0, 1] / John Todd -- The method of finite elements, path integrals, and quantum field theory / Carl M. Bender, G. S. Guralnik, and David H. Sharp -- Generation of [italic]k-ary trees / C. L. Liu.

ISBN

• 0125985452
• 9780125985451

LCCN

86001117

OCLC

• ocm13125993
• 13125993
• SCSB-644710

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library