Hi, all:
Here you are, yet another fine selection of computational math-related links to interesting PDF documents that I've found publicly available on the web while merrily googling about, for your reading pleasure this weekend (and after):
The SIAM 100-Digit Challenge
- Trefethen's Challenge
- Trefethen's report on the event
- Foreword
- Preface
- The Story
- Chapter 1: A Twisted Tail
- Chapter 2: Reliability amid Chaos
- Chapter 3: How Far Away Is Infinity?
- Chapter 4: Think Globally, Act Locally
- Chapter 5: A Complex Optimization
- Chapter 6: Biasing for a Fair Return
- Chapter 7: Too Large to Be Easy, Too Small to Be Hard
- Chapter 8: In the Moment of Heat
- Chapter 9: Gradus ad Parnassum
- Chapter 10: Hitting the Ends
- References
- Index
Please note the links point directly to the documents' respective original WWW sites, I do not keep any local copies anywhere and I can do nothing if the links are broken or don't work, so please don't ask in case you can't access them for whatever reasons.
BTW, I wonder how would we fare if attempting this challenge with just our beloved machines and a great deal of ingenuity: 10 digits ? 20 ? 50 ? 90 ? 100 ?
Best regards from V.