The generalization of Shanks' $e$-transformation to double series is discussed and a class of nonlinear transformations, the $\lbrack A/S \rbrack_R$ transformations ...

I was having dinner with a visiting colleague this week when talk turned to what we were teaching this term. He mentioned the part of calculus dealing with infinite series (the bane of many students) ...

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For sheer brilliance, it was hard to beat John von Neumann. An architect of the modern computer and inventor of game theory, von Neumann was legendary, above all, for his lightning-fast mental ...