Overview
Get insight into the exciting life and career of the distinguished mathematician Prof. Ian H. Sloan
Many papers in this book are written by international leaders who present the current state of the art in computational mathematics
Learn about the private life of Prof. Ian Sloan, as portrayed by his wife, children and grandchildren
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Table of contents (59 chapters)
Keywords
- Electron-atom scattering
- Few-nucleon scattering problems
- Four-body problem, and the Bencze-Redish-Sloan equations
- Numerical integration and product integration
- Numerical analysis of second-kind integral equations
- Superconvergence of the iterated Galerkin approximation
- Boundary integral equations
- Qualocation
- Numerical analysis of partial differential equations
- Constructive approximation on spheres and manifolds
- Hyperinterpolation, radial basis functions, needlets
- High dimensional integration and approximation
- Weighted spaces of multivariate functions
- Information based complexity
- Tractability of multivariate and infinite-dimensional problems
- Numerical analysis of PDEs with random coefficients
- Applications in finance, groundwater flow, physics
- algorithmic complexity
About this book
The book also tells the life story of the renowned mathematician, family man, colleague and friend, who has been an inspiration to many of us. The reader may especially enjoy the story from the perspective of his family, his wife, his daughter and son, as well as grandchildren, who share their views of Ian. The clear message of the book is that Ian H. Sloan has been a role model in science and life.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Frances Kuo is Associate Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia. She is an academic grandchild of Professor Ian Sloan and a collaborator for over 15 years.
Henryk Wozniakowski is Emeritus Professor of Columbia University in New York and of University of Warsaw in Poland. He has been collaborating with Professor Ian Sloan for the last 20 years.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contemporary Computational Mathematics - A Celebration of the 80th Birthday of Ian Sloan
Editors: Josef Dick, Frances Y. Kuo, Henryk Woźniakowski
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72456-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72455-3Published: 04 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10203-6Published: 23 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72456-0Published: 23 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLIX, 1309
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations, 92 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis, Mathematics of Algorithmic Complexity