Acta Numerica 2008 Volume 17 [Paperback]

A high-impact, prestigious annual publication containing invited surveys by subject leaders: essential reading for all practitioners and researchers.Acta Numerica is a high-impact factor, prestigious annual publication containing invited surveys by leading researchers in numerical mathematics and scientific computing. The surveys present overviews of developments in their area and provide techniques and analyses. It is essential reading for practitioners and researchers. This volume was originally published in 2008.Acta Numerica is a high-impact factor, prestigious annual publication containing invited surveys by leading researchers in numerical mathematics and scientific computing. The surveys present overviews of developments in their area and provide techniques and analyses. It is essential reading for practitioners and researchers. This volume was originally published in 2008.Acta Numerica 2008 is a high-impact, prestigious, annual publication that contains invited surveys by leading researchers in numerical mathematics and scientific computing. These surveys present overviews of recent developments in their specific areas and provide state-of-the-art techniques and analyses. It is essential reading for all practitioners and researchers.1. Linear algebra algorithms as dynamical systems Moody T. Chu; 2. Accurate and efficient expression evaluation and linear algebra James Demmel, Ioana Dumitriu, Olga Holtz and Plamen Koev; 3. Asymptotic and numerical homogenization B. Engquist and P. E. Souganidis; 4. Interior-point methods for optimization Arkadi S. Nemirovski and Michael J. Todd; 5. Greedy approximation V. N. Temlyakov.