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We now consider the general principles we should bear in mind when developing mathematical software, with particular reference to the structure and design of the mathlib library.
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The production and evaluation of mathematical software is a subject which has been developing rapidly in recent years. An interesting survey article is given by W. R. Cowell and L. D. Fosdick in Mathematical Software (Rice (1977)). Many modern FORTRAN codes for mathematical computations are given in the very useful book Computer Methods for Mathematical Computations (Forsythe, Malcolm and Moler (1979)). This book can be recommended to the reader who has a basic knowledge of FORTRAN 66.
The design, production and documentation of a large modern mathematical library is discussed in a paper by J. K. Reid and M. J. Hopper in the conference proceedings Production and Assessment of Numerical Software (Hennell and Delves (1980)). These proceedings also contain a number of useful contributions covering software verification, portability and general design of a mathematical library.
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© 1983 P. M. Dew and K. R. James
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Dew, P.M., James, K.R. (1983). Principles of Mathematical Software. In: Introduction to Numerical Computation in Pascal. Macmillan Computer Science Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17097-5_2
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