The SIAM 100-Digit Challenge
A Study in High-Accuracy Numerical Computing
Folkmar Bornemann, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
Dirk Laurie, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Stan Wagon, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Jörg Waldvogel, Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
With a foreword by David H. Bailey
SIAM, Society for Industrial and Applied Math., Philadelphia, 2004, 306 pp.
This book takes readers on a thrilling tour of some of the most important areas
of contemporary numerical mathematics. The tour is organized along the 10 problems
of the SIAM 100-Digit Challenge, a contest posed by Nick Trefethen of Oxford
University in the January/February 2002 issue of SIAM News.