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Subject: Fw: [ANN] Numerical methods code available in VW3, 5 & 7
From: francois_bousquet (francois_bousquet@hotmail.com)
Date: mar jun 18 2002 - 07:26:46 CEST
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Whitney" <whitney@cs.sdsu.edu>
To: <vwnc@cs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 12:07 PM
Subject: [ANN] Numerical methods code available in VW3, 5 & 7
>
> The Smalltalk code from Object-Oriented Implementation of Numerical
> Methods: An Introduction with Java & Smalltalk", Didier Besset, 2000 by
> Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, http://www.mkp.com is now available on
> sourceforge at:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/dhbnumerics/
>
> The code has been ported to:
> VisualWorks (VW) 3 (with and without envy), VW 5i, VW7,
> Squeak 3.2,
> Dolphin 4 (also works in current version of dolphin),
> VisualAge Smalltalk 6.0 and
> Smalltalk/X.
>
> The code has been ported and distributed with permission from Didier
> Besset and Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. It is distributed under the GNU
> Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL). See
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html for more information on LGPL.
>
> From the table of contents of the book here is a partial list of the
> Wed 19 Jun 2002 07:43:52 +0700
unctionality implemented:
>
> Evaluate Functions
> Interpolation
> Lagrange, Newton, Neville, Bulirsch-Stoer, Cubic Spline
> Finding Zeros of a function
> Bisection, Newton, Roots of Polynomials
> Integration of Functions
> Simpson, Romberg
> Series
> Infinite Series, Continued fractions, Incomplete Gamma & Beta functions
> Linear Algebra
> Gaussian Elimination, LUP Decomposition, determinants, Matrix
> inversion, eigenvalues, eigenvectors
> Statistical Analysis
> F-test, t-test, chi-square test, least-square estimation, linear
> regression
> Optimization
> Hill-climbing, Powell's algorithm, Simplex method, genetic algorithms
> Data Mining
>
> See Besset's book for a complete list and documentation on how to use
> the code.
>
> Thanks to Didier Besset for his work in producing the code and the book,
> and thanks for allowing the port and distribution of the code.
>
> Joseph Whitesell ported Besset's code to VisualWorks 3 and obtained
> permission from Morgan Kaufmann Publishersto distributed the ports
> under LGPL. Claus Gittinger, Sean Glazier, Jeff Hallman, Paolo Lorri,
> Chris Uppal, Adriaan van Os,Joseph Whitesell and Roger Whitney were
> involved in porting the code. Much of the work was done at Camp
> Smalltalk 3 at Essen and Camp Smalltalk 4 at Colorado Springs.
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