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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Jitse Niesen (talk | contribs) at 13:37, 21 June 2006 (→Consistent methods: agree). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Names

According to the St Andrews' MacTutor website, specifically http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Runge.html and http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Kutta.html, the names are as written by 142.177.19.200 (Carle David Tolmé Runge and Martin Wilhelm Kutta), and not as I wrote them earlier. Jitse Niesen 15:20, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Gear

I removed the following item from the History section:

1968 - C. William Gear invents the first stable algorithms to solve stiff differential equations.

I suppose this refers to BDF (backward differentiation formula), which were in fact already introduced by Curtiss and Hirschfelder in the same 1952 paper where they talk about stiffness. Please correct me if I am wrong. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 5 July 2005 16:58 (UTC)

Consistent methods

It seems that the consistence of a method is mentioned in the pages about Runge-Kutta and Adams method, but it is never defined. Is this page the right place to put its definition? Fph 12:41, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I think so. It would perhaps fit in nicely in the discussion about order. By the way, benvenuti a Wikipedia! -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 13:37, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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