Seminar series
Date
Tue, 18 Jan 2022
14:00
14:00
Location
Virtual
Speaker
Nick Trefethen
Organisation
Mathematical Institute (University of Oxford)
There's an idea going back at least to Kirchberger in 1902 that since the only operations we can ultimately compute are +, -, *, and /, all of numerical computation must reduce to rational functions. I've been looking into this idea and it has led in some interesting directions.