| "Stiff" differential equations      148 
  calculated symmetrically from  27 Accelerating convergence of Gauss — Seidel iterations      480 483
 Accelerating convergence, by Aitken extrapolation      216
 Accelerating convergence, by shifting eigenvalues of a matrix      215
 Activities      see "PERT"
 Activities, activities represented as edges of a graph      508
 Activities, events represented as nodes of a graph      508
 Adams — Bashforth      146
 Adaptive quadrature      105
 Aitken extrapolation      216
 Aitken interpolation      93
 Alabama      516
 Alternating directions, method of      483
 Alternating series, loss of significant figures in      14 69
 Approximating by a series of exponentials      252
 Approximating error curves by matching, at extrema      301
 Approximating error curves by matching, at zeros      300
 Approximating quadratic factors of polynomials      195
 Approximation for x      26
 arctangent function      6
 Arctangent function, continued fraction for      7
 Arctangent function, Gauss iteration for      9
 Arctangent function, series for      6
 Arctangent function, series for large arguments      30
 Arctangent function, series of Chebyshev polynomials for      36
 Asymptotic series      16 262
 Asymptotic series for erfc x      16
 Asymptotic series, derivation of, from an integral      17 262
 Asymptotic series, derivation of, from differential equations      18
 Asymptotic series, minimum term of      17 263
 Backward difference in parabolic partial differential equations      442
 Backward polynomial division      191
 Baltimore traffic      504
 Banded symmetric matrices, reduction of      329
 Bessel functions, recursive evaluation of
  23 Bessel functions, series for
  70 Bessel's interpolation formula      90
 Binary chop      179
 Biorthognality of the eigenvectors of an unsymmetric matrix with those of its transpose      220
 Bisection method      see "Binary chop"
 Block tridiagonal systems      482
 Bottleneck problems in a network      524
 Boundary conditions for ordinary differential equations      Chapter 6
 Boundary conditions, at infinity      163
 Boundary-value problems of physics, orthogonal functions defined by      495
 Bounds for integrals on infinite regions      113
 Breaking an infinite range of integration      112
 Bulirsch and Stoer      136
 Characteristic polynomial of a matrix, evaluation from Hessenberg form      344
 Characteristic polynomial of a matrix, evaluation from tridiagonal form      332
 Characteristic roots      see "Eigenvalues (Chapters 8 and 13)"
 Characteristic value problem      see "Eigenvalue problems (Chapters 8 and 13)"
 Chebyshev polynomials      292
 Chebyshev polynomials, expansion of
  in      36 Chebyshev polynomials, matching approximations to functions at extrema of      301
 Chebyshev polynomials, minimax property of      290 293
 Chebyshev polynomials, used in economizing power series      293
 Cholesky algorithm for factoring matrices      348
 Circle of indeterminacy      76
 Clustered roots      363
 Complex polynomial roots      189f.
 Complex polynomial roots by forward-backward division      195
 Complex polynomial roots by Newton's method for quadratic factors      194
 Complex polynomial roots by Newton's method in the complex plane      189
 Computational singularities      65 410
 Condenser, exact map for      497
 Condenser, integral equation for      420 493
 Condenser, parallel-plate      491
 Condenser, Rosser iteration for      495
 Conformal map for the parallel-plate condenser      497
 Continued fraction      7
 Continued fraction for arctan x      7
 Continued fraction for tanh x      27
 Continued fraction from a power series      285
 Continued fraction, computational forms of      280
 Continued fraction, evaluation of as a rational function      287
 Continued fraction, tail of, expresion for      312
 Continued fraction, truncation of      312
 Convergence of an iteration      54 216
 Convergence, acceleration of by Aitken extrapolation      216
 Convergence, analytic discussion      394f.
 Convergent iteration, construction of      398
 Corrector step      see "Predictor-corrector methods"
 Cosh z, roots of cosh z = w, by iteration      390f.
 Cosines, evaluation of series of      11
 Cosines, series for, economized      293 305
 Crank — Nicholson      447
 Critical paths in a network      508
 Curve crawlers in several dimensions      379f. 382
 Curved boundaries, Laplace's equation      485
 Deferred approach to the limit      see "Richardson extrapolation"
 Deflating a matrix      219
 Derivative of a polynomial, evaluation by synthetic division      183
 Derivative of a polynomial, evaluation from a tridiagonal form      334
 Derivative, first, estimated from two points      158
 Derivative, second, estimated from three points      159
 Descent to a nearby subsurface in n dimensions      384
 Difference equation, solution of linear      144
 Difference table      91
 Direct fitting of rational approximations      310
 Direct fitting of the discrepancy, of a continued fraction      311
 Direct fitting of the discrepancy, of a power series      304
 Dirichlet problem      477 488
 Discontinuities, removal of to speed convergence of series      233
 Discovery of loops in ordered networks      313 315
 Discrepancy caused by truncating a continued fraction      311
 Divergent iterations      44 145 440
 Division of one polynomial by another      190
 Double length accumulation of vector innerproducts      343
 Double root strategy in several dimensions      401
 Double roots of polynomials      186
 Economization, of
  426 Economization, of a power series      291
 Economization, of rational functions      308
 Eigenvectors      355
 Eigenvectors, by inverse iteration      359
 Eigenvectors, from specialized matrices      356
 Ellipsoids, contours of      210 462
 Ellipsoids, second derivative geometries of      461 469f.
 Ellipsoids, seeking the center of      458
 Ellipsoids, strategy for minimization via      474
 Elliptic functions (Jacobian)      415
 Elliptic integral K(k)      416
 Elliptic integral K(k), computation of      417
 Equal-ripple error      291f.
 Equal-ripple error, direct production of      299
 Error amplifier      440
 Error caused by truncating a continued fraction      311
 Error function, erf (x), continued fraction for      313
 Error function, series representations for      15f.
 Error growth, exponential      440
 Error growth, linear      216
 Error growth, quadratic      216
 Error terms for quadrature formulas      111
 Estimation of the tail of an integral      113 117
 Euler's constant      268
 Evaluating
  on a computer      27 28 Evaluating a determinant      354
 Evaluating a determinant in Hessenberg form      344
 Evaluating a determinant in tridiagonal form      332
 Evaluating a polynomial for complex arguments      192—193
 Evaluating a polynomial from Hessenberg form      344
 Evaluating a polynomial from tridiagonal form      332
 Evaluating a polynomial, by synthetic division      59 181
 Evaluating finite Fourier series      11
 Evaluating series of orthogonal functions      11
 Evaluating the characteristic polynomial derivative from tridiagonal form      334
 Evaluating the characteristic polynomial from Hessenberg form      344
 Evaluating the characteristic polynomial from tridiagonal form      332
 
 | Evaluating the discrepancy caused by truncating a continued fraction      311 Everett's interpolation formula      92
 Everett's relation of coefficients to Lagrange's      98
 Exponential approximation      252
 Exponential equations, the integration of boundary-value problems leading to      169f.
 Exponential error      440
 Exponential fitting      252
 Exponential fitting of data      252
 Exponential form of Fourier series      240
 Extraneous solution to a difference equation      144
 Extrapolation to the limit, Richardsonian      106
 Factorization of the second order exponential equation      170
 False Position in 2 dimensions      374
 False Position in 2 dimensions, computational details      378
 False Position in 2 dimensions, speed of convergence      379
 False position, method of      52
 False Position, rate of convergence of      56
 Finding non-extremal eigenvalues by the power method      218
 Finding the smallest eigenvalue by shifting      217
 Finite Fourier series      228f.
 Finite Fourier series for unequally spaced points      238
 Finite Fourier series, discontinuity removal in      225 233
 Finite Fourier series, improving the convergence of      225
 Finite Fourier series, in exponential form      239—242
 Finite Fourier series, number of terms possible      222 230
 Finite Fourier series, recursive calculation of the coefficients      231
 Finite Fourier series, recursive evaluation      11
 Finite orthogonal polynomials on unequally spaced points      235
 Fitting a cubic to two functional values and two derivatives      454f.
 Fitting the discrepancy      304
 Fletcher      467
 Flow through a network of pipes      517f.
 Flow through a network of pipes, circuit equations for      519
 Flow through a network of pipes, nodal equations for      519
 Ford      524
 Forsythe      483
 Forward differences in parabolic partial differential equations      438
 Forward-backward division algorithm for polynomial roots      195
 Fourier series, limit on number of coefficients for finite      222
 Fourier series, optimality of      224
 Fourier series, orthogonality in      223
 Fourier series, rate of convergence of      225
 Fourier series, recursive evaluation of      11
 Fringed tridiagonal equation systems      480
 Fulkerson      524
 Functional iteration, convergence of      52 399
 Functional iteration, starting values for      47
 Functional iteration, stopping      48
 Gauss — Seidel      480 483
 Gaussian elimination      342 358
 Gaussian quadrature      103
 Gaussian triangularization      see "Gaussian elimination"
 Gibbs phenomenon      227
 Gibbs phenomenon, Lanczos's
  factors for      228 Gill      156
 Givens reduction of a matrix      322 330
 Goldfeld      476
 Gradient methods      see "Functional minimization (Chapter 17)"
 Gradient vector      210 368 381
 Graeffe's method      198
 Gram — Schmidt orthogonalization      219
 Graphical extrapolation of a differential equation solution      130
 Hamming's method, (o.d.e.)      146
 Hartree      170
 Hessenberg form      317
 Hessenberg form, direct reduction of unsymmetric matrices to      341
 Hessenberg form, evaluation of the characteristic polynomial from      344
 Hessenberg form, reduction to tridiagonal form      342
 Highly oscillatory ordinary differential equations      152
 Homogeneous algebraic equations      206
 Hotelling's deflation method for eigenvalues      218
 Householder's reduction for symmetric matrices      324f.
 Ill-conditioned systems      253
 Improving the convergence of series by recasting as continued fractions      296
 Improving the convergence of series by recasting as rational functions      263
 Infinite integrals      413
 Infinite integrands      66 120 412
 Infinite product for sin x      20
 Infinite regions, quadrature over      112
 Infinite regions, transformation of dummy variable      112
 Initial-value treatment of boundary-value problems      173
 Innerproduct doublelength accumulation, its necessity in large linear systems      343
 Instabilities, in initial-value problems      434
 Instabilities, in ordinary differential equations      143 434
 Instabilities, in parabolic partial differential equations      436f.
 Instabilities, in recurrence relations      21 432
 Integral equation for the parallel plate condenser      420 493
 Integral equations, singular      420 493
 Integration of "stiff" differential equations      148
 Integration of highly oscillatory differential equations      152
 Interchanging, example of, with a tridiagonal matrix      358
 Interior eigenvalues by orthogonalization      218
 Interpolation formulas      Chapter 3
 Interpolation formulas, Aitken      93
 Interpolation formulas, Bessel      90
 Interpolation formulas, by the method of undetermined coefficients      108
 Interpolation formulas, Everett      92
 Interpolation formulas, higher order      90
 Interpolation formulas, Lagrange      96
 Interpolation formulas, quadratic      90
 Interpolation formulas, unequally spaced values      95
 Interpolation, special methods for      98
 Inverse iteration for eigenvectors      357
 Isoclines      see "Graphical extrapolation of a differential equation solution"
 Isolated roots      81
 Iterated multiplication      211
 Iterated vector, multiplication by a matrix      214
 Iteration method for the largest eigenvalue      213
 Iterative solution of a quadratic      58
 Jacobi plane rotation      319
 Jacobi plane rotation, comparative inefficiency of for eigenvalues      321
 Jacobian elliptic functions, properties      415
 Jacobian elliptic functions: sn, cn, dn, computation of      417
 Kahn      512
 Lagrange's interpolation formula      96 108
 Lagrange's interpolation formula, disadvantages of      96
 Lagrangian interpolation coefficients      96
 Lagrangian interpolation coefficients, their relation to Everett's      98
 Laguerre's method for polynomial roots      187 335
 Laplace's equation      Chapter 18
 Laplace's equation, bordered tridiagonal form from      480
 Laplace's equation, closed boundary      411f.
 Laplace's equation, curved boundary conditions      485
 Laplace's equation, normal derivative boundary conditions      488
 Laplace's equation, open boundary      491f.
 Latent roots      see "Eigenvalues (Chapters 8 and 13)"
 Latent vectors      see "Eigenvectors"
 Least-squares fitting      25 253
 Least-squares property of orthogonal expansions      223—225
 Lehmer method for polynomials      196
 Lin's method for quartics with complex roots      198
 Linear convergence      216
 Linear error      216
 Linearization of nonlinear differential equations      171—173
 List representation of a network      501 503
 ln x, integral representation for      268
 Lobaschevski      see "Graeffe"
 Loop detection in an ordered network      513 515
 Loss of significant figures by subtraction      72
 Loss of significant figures in alternating series      14 69
 LR algorithms      346
 LR algorithms for tridiagonal forms      350
 LR algorithms, convergence of      348
 Madelung transformation      154
 Maehly      296
 Maximal network flows, Ford and Fulkerson's algorithm for      524
 Method of undetermined coefficients      108
 Milne's method      132 see
 Milne's method, instability of      143
 Minimum methods      Chapter 17
 
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