On computing the points and weights for Gauss-Legendre quadrature

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 945-954

  Swarztrauber, Paul N ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Fourier Newton methods; Gauss quadrature; Legendre polynomials

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; VECTORS;

EIGENSYSTEM METHOD; FOURIER-NEWTON METHODS; GAUSS-LEGENDRE QUADRATURE; INVERSE TAYLOR SERIES;

POLYNOMIALS;

EID: 0037732656     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S1064827500379690     Document Type: Article

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