Seminar series
Date
Tue, 10 Jun 2014
Time
14:00 -
14:30
Location
L5
Speaker
Mike Giles
Organisation
University of Oxford
Ever wondered how the log function in your code is computed? This talk, which was prepared for the 400th anniversary of Napier's development of logarithms, discusses the computation of reciprocals, exponentials and logs, and also my own work on some special functions which are important in Monte Carlo simulation.