Publisher's Synopsis
This is a book edition of the symposium proceedings previously published in the Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics . Twenty-one invited and 11 contributed talks given by such authors as E.L. Allgower, O. Axelesson, C. Brezinski, H.W. Engl, C.W. Gear, J.W. Jerome, D.K. Kahaner and B.N. Parlett are included. Contributions cover a wide variety of current topics in computational mathematics including: numerical linear algebra, nonlinear equations and optimization, numerical approximation and integration, ill-posed problems, numerical solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations, numerical solution of algebraic equations, and computation with validation.