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- From: harper@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (John Harper)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.num-analysis
- Subject: Heun and Runge-Kutta
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- Date: 15 Sep 92 22:17:12 GMT
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- Some textbooks (e g Burden & Faires "Numerical Analysis") call a second-
- order Runge-Kutta method for ordinary differential equations Heun's method.
- Did Heun publish first and not discover the higher-order R-K methods, or
- is there some other reason for his name to be on it?
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- John Harper Mathematics Dept. Victoria University Wellington New Zealand
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