Visualizing transcendental functions

  • Authors:
  • William J. Thompson

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Computing in Science and Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Scientists and engineers often need to compute mathematical functions that depend in a complicated way on their parameters. Such functions-especially those whose analytical properties researchers have studied extensively-are called transcendental functions or special functions. There are three important reasons for visualizing such functions: to better understand their analytical properties, to clarify the science leading to their use, and to improve computing algorithms by seeing how the function depends on its parameters