Right, I've learned something! And I thought I was a mathematician... I wonder how well-known A&S is in Europe? My contemporaries would have turned to Rektorys "Survey of Applicable Mathematics". But I'm talking 1960s - 70s now...
Ian On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Sherlock, Ric <r.g.sherl...@massey.ac.nz> wrote: >> From: Dan Bron >> >> > Could somebody please tell me >> > what "A&S 26.2.16" means? >> >> A&S is Abramowitz and Stegun, a mathematical reference. It is a >> collection of common/useful mathematical formulae, and 26.2.16 is one >> of those formulae. >> >> BTW, I am not a mathematician, so I don't know how familiar the work is >> in that community, but it certainly gets a lot of citations in the J >> Forum and the APL community generally (and Ken and Roger's posts/papers >> in particular, in my experience). > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abramowitz_and_Stegun > The Wikipedia entry for the book provides some of that context: > > "The Handbook is likely the most widely distributed and most cited NIST > technical publication of all time. Government sales exceed 150,000 copies, > and an estimated three times as many have been reprinted and sold by > commercial publishers since 1965. During the mid-1990s, the book was cited > every 1.5 hours of each working day. And its influence will persist as it is > currently being updated in digital format by NIST." > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
