Nick Trefethen Essays
- A bifurcation in Moore's Law?
(SIAM News, Sept. 2023)
- Trefethen and Bau 25th anniversary
(SIAM News, June 2022)
- Rational functions and beyond
(SIAM News, Dec. 2020)
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Inverse Yogiisms
(Notices AMS, Dec. 2016)
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Surprises of the Faraday Cage
(SIAM News, July-Aug. 2016)
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Review of The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics
(SIAM Review, Sept. 2015)
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Why have SIAM journal papers grown so long?
(SIAM News, Aug. 2015)
(see also this)
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Review of Wegert's Visual Complex Functions
(SIAM Review, Dec. 2013)
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GH Hardy, Applied Mathematician
(SIAM News, Apr. 2008)
- Numerical analysis
(Princeton
Companion to Mathematics, 2008)
- Gene Golub obituary
(Nature, 13 Dec. 2007)
- Ten digit algorithms
(Mitchell Lecture, Dundee, June 2005)
- An American at Oxford
(Oxford Magazine, May 2003)
- Predictions for scientific computing 50 years from now
(Mathematics Today, 2000)
- Maxims about numerical mathematics,
computers, science, and life
(SIAM News, Jan/Feb 1998)
(Spanish translation)
- The
definition of numerical analysis
(SIAM News, Nov 1992)
LMS Newsletter "Notes of a Numerical Analyst":
- Dec 2024: Silly digits
- Sept 2024: PDEs and integrals
- May 2024: The meaning of eigenvalues
- Feb 2024: Discrete and continuous
- Dec 2023: From dice to adjoints
- Sept 2023: Which is smaller, O(n2) or O(n3)?
- July 2023: Double exponential bump functions
- May 2023: Dribbling a ball
- Mar 2023: Randomness and certainty
- Jan 2023: Analytic continuation
- Nov 2022: Nonsmooth landscapes
- Sept 2022: What's the degree of xn?
- July 2022: Random Fibonacci sequences
- May 2022: A picture worth 2000 words
- Mar 2022: Is everything a rational function?
- Jan 2022: Hermite polynomial surprises
- Nov 2021: Floating point arithmetic
- Sept 2021: Random smoothies
- July 2021: The universe speaks in numbers?
- May 2021: Multivariate polynomials
- Mar 2021: At the edge of infinity
- Nov 2020: Two cubes
- Sept 2020: What we learned from Galois
SIAM News President's columns:
- Jan/Feb 2011: On transitions, traditions, and a mathematical trend
- March 2011: Data mining: 100 feet of SIAM journals
- April 2011: Conditions at the pure/applied boundary
- May 2011: For the prize of a pizza
- June 2011: Let's have some letters to the editor!
- July/Aug 2011: A new paper from every conference?
- Sept 2011: Seeing new connections
- Oct 2011: A couple of steps removed from weather prediction
- Nov 2011: What's in a name?
- Dec 2011: Favorite eigenvalue problems
- Jan/Feb 2012: Parallel progressions
- March 2012: Distracting digits
- April 2012: Culture change in store for SIAM journals
- May 2012: Discrete or continuous?
- June 2012: What lasts?
- July/Aug 2012: Nutty about writing
- Sept 2012: A talent for making things happen
- Oct 2012: What's so special about complex variables?
- Nov 2012: The smart money's on numerical analysis
- Dec 2012: Refelections on a SIAM presidency
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