An invitation to Hermite's integration and summation: A comparison between Hermite's and Simpson's rules

SIAM Review

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 311-328

  Lampret, Vito ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Euler's constant; Hermite; Numerical integration; Simpson; Stirling; Summation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BESSEL FUNCTIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING;

EULER'S CONSTANT; HERMITE; NUMERICAL INTEGRATION; SIMPSON; STIRLING; SUMMATION;

INTEGRATION;

EID: 3142744117     PISSN: 00361445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036144502416308     Document Type: Article

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