Award: Chauvenet Prize

Year of Award: 1988

Publication Information: Bulletin of the AMS, vol. 13 (1983), pp. 87-121

Summary: A discussion of recent results, new proofs and new open problems on the global analysis of algorithms of linear and calculus mathematics, especially with regard to effiency. The problems come from numerical analysis, operations research and classical mathematics.

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About the Author: Steve Smale was at the University of California, Berkeley at the time of publication.