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A theme running through Gautschi’s work is numerical conditioning. His many papers on this topic fall broadly into two categories: those on conditioning of Vandermonde matrices and those on conditioning of polynomials.
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Higham, N.J. (2014). Numerical conditioning. In: Brezinski, C., Sameh, A. (eds) Walter Gautschi, Volume 1. Contemporary Mathematicians. Birkhäuser, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7034-2_5
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