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Informationen zum Autor Philippe G. Ciarlet began his academic career at the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, in 1974, and moved to the City University of Hong Kong in 2002. He is a member of eight academies, including the French Academy of Sciences and the Hong Kong Institution of Science, and is a Fellow of SIAM and the AMS. Ciarlet is the recipient of a Grand Prize from the French Academy of Sciences and a Humboldt Research Award, as well as many other awards. He is Doctor Honoris Causa, or Honorary Professor, at eight universities and the author of 190 research papers and fifteen books. Klappentext The book offers a panorama of a part of mathematics known as "Foundations of Computational Mathematics." This is achieved through five survey papers describing some foundational issues in different branches of computational mathematics. In addition, a sixth paper gives an account of what "Foundations of Computational Mathematics" is.
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"...A clear and detailed overview of the concepts, methods and problems encountered using numerical path following." -- Newsletter on Computational and Applied Mathematics
"...this is an immensely thorough text, densely filled..." -- Ultramiscroscopy
".....the volume would be a delight to the mathematically-oriented readers..." --Karmeshu and S Balasundaram, Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research
