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Prof Higham has quite the list of papers on the finer points of numerical algorithms going back to his MSc in 1983:

http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/papers/bibbase.php

including a brief note on the comparing "Top 10 Algorithms in Applied Mathematics" between 2000 and 2016 that may interest some:

https://nhigham.com/2016/03/29/the-top-10-algorithms-in-appl...

It'd be nice to see some meat on the bones and a few ripping yarns about the application end of applied math techniques .. eg: forming an enhanced image from tens (or hundreds) of thousands of multichannel spectral samples using a sensitivity adjusted SVD, and then removing the most common expected background to highlight the anomalies.

It's dry stuff in Linear Algebra, somewhat more exciting when searching for nuclear weapons in a forest or gold in a desert.

parent defrost 4 years ago

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