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Handbook for Automatic Computation

Volume I · Part a

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  1. H. Rutishauser

    1. Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland

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  1. F. L. Bauer
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  2. A. S. Householder
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  3. F. W. J. Olver
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  4. H. Rutishauser
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Part of the book series: Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften (GL, volume 135)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Introduction

    • H. Rutishauser
    Pages 1-17

  3. Basic Concepts

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    Pages 18-33

  4. Expressions

    • H. Rutishauser
    Pages 34-55

  5. Statements

    • H. Rutishauser
    Pages 56-94

  6. Miscellaneous Applications

    • H. Rutishauser
    Pages 95-143

  7. Declarations

    • H. Rutishauser
    Pages 144-171

  8. Procedures

    • H. Rutishauser
    Pages 172-226

  9. Input and Output

    • H. Rutishauser
    Pages 227-247

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 248-326
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About this book

Automatic computing has undergone drastic changes since the pioneering days of the early Fifties, one of the most obvious being that today the majority of computer programs are no longer written in machine code but in some programming language like FORTRAN or ALGOL. However, as desirable as the time-saving achieved in this way may be, still a high proportion of the preparatory work must be attributed to activities such as error estimates, stability investigations and the like, and for these no programming aid whatsoever can be of help. In this respect, ALGOL, as an internationally standardized notation which avoids computer-oriented concepts, provides another advantage, not often mentioned, but one which was already the guiding principle at the very beginning of the programming language venture: indeed, a correct ALGOL program is the abstractum of a computing process for which the necessary analyses have already been performed. It is the very purpose of this Handbook to establish such abstract formulations of certain computing processes. Therefore, numerical methods given in this Hand­ book in the form of ALGOL procedures may be put to immediate use wherever ALGOL is known and understood; in fact, application of such a method reduces to little more than calling the corresponding procedure.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland

    H. Rutishauser

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Handbook for Automatic Computation

  • Book Subtitle: Volume I · Part a

  • Authors: H. Rutishauser

  • Editors: F. L. Bauer, A. S. Householder, F. W. J. Olver, H. Rutishauser, K. Samelson, E. Stiefel

  • Series Title: Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86934-1

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1967

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-86936-5Published: 02 June 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-86934-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0072-7830

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-9701

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 326

  • Topics: Mathematics, general

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