Pitfalls in Computation, or Why a Math Book isn't Enough
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It is concluded that mathematics courses should be taught with a greater awareness of automatic computation.
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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsGeorge E. ForsytheProf. Forsythe received his PhD at Brown University under W. Feller and J. D. Tamarkin. He was an instructor at Stanford, worked in meteorology with the Air Force and at UCLA, and worked in numerical analysis at Boeing Airplane Co., the Institute for Numerical Analysis, and at UCLA. He has been at Stanford since 1957 in mathematics and in computing science. He spent 1955–56 at the Courant Institute and 1966–67 at various computer centers in Europe, Asia, and Australia.He is known for his extensive writing on random variables, meteorology, and computer science. In 1969 he received an MAA Lester Ford Award. His books are: Dynamic Meteorology (with J. Holmboe and W. Gustin, Wiley, 1945), Bibliography of Russian Mathematics Books (Chelsea, 1956), Finite Difference Methods for Partial Differential Equations (with W. R. Wasow, Wiley, 1960), and Computer Solution of Linear Algebraic Systems (with C. B. Moler, Prentice-Hall, 1967). Editor.