Acta Numerica 2010 Volume 19 [Hardcover]

A high-impact, prestigious, annual publication containing invited surveys by subject leaders: essential reading for all practitioners and researchers.Acta Numerica is an annual publication containing invited survey papers by leading researchers in numerical mathematics and scientific computing. The papers present overviews of recent developments in their area and provide 'state of the art' techniques and analysis. This volume was originally published in 2010.Acta Numerica is an annual publication containing invited survey papers by leading researchers in numerical mathematics and scientific computing. The papers present overviews of recent developments in their area and provide 'state of the art' techniques and analysis. This volume was originally published in 2010.Acta Numerica is an annual publication containing invited survey papers by leading researchers in numerical mathematics and scientific computing. The papers present overviews of recent developments in their area and provide state of the art' techniques and analysis.1. Finite element approximation of Eigenvalue problems Daniele Boffi; 2. Binary separation and training support vector machines Roger Fletcher and Gaetano Zanghirati; 3. Computing matrix functions Nicholas J. Higham and Awad H. Al-Mohy; 4. Exponential integrators Marlis Hochbruck and Alexander Ostermann; 5. Verification methods: rigorous results using floating-point arithmetic Siegfried M. Rump; 6. Inverse problems: a Bayesian perspective A. M. Stuart; 7. Kepler, Newton and numerical analysis G. Wanner.