Elementary Functions: Algorithms and Implementation

by Jean-Michel Muller

Second Edition of successful, well-reviewed Birkhauser book, which sold 866 copies in North America Provides an up-to-date presentation by including new results, examples, and problems throughout the text The second edition adds a chapter on multiple-precision arithmetic, and new algorithms invented since 1997

266 pages, Hardcover

First published October 24, 2005

Reviews

[TheEoJMan · Rating 3 out of 5]

It’s crazy that polynomial approximations of continuous elementary functions work; did a few by hand and it felt like magic. Extremely unreadable text after the 3rd chapter.