Numerical Analysis [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the Biennial Conference Held at Dundee, June 28–July 1, 1977 / edited by G. A. Watson.

Runge-Kutta methods for Volterra integral equations of the second kind -- Best approximation of complex-valued data -- Inverse eigenvalue problems for band matrices -- Multivariate approximants with branch points -- The numerical treatment of some singular boundary value problems -- The incorporation of boundary conditions in spline approximation problems -- A time-stepping method for Galerkin approximations for nonlinear parabolic equations -- An automatic one-way dissection algorithm for irregular finite element problems -- Generalised Galerkin methods for second order equations with significant first derivative terms -- The Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm: Implementation and theory -- Nonlinear approximation problems in vector norms -- Finite difference solution of two-point boundary value problems and symbolic manipulation -- A fast algorithm for nonlinearly constrained optimization calculations -- The decomposition of systems of procedures and algebraic equations -- Global error estimation in ODE-solvers -- Isojacobic crosswind differencing.