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Abramowitz and Stegun, 9 , 412
absolute convergence, 37
acceleration, 79
Adams methods, 332
stable 335
alternating symbol, 204, 271
alternating tensor, 371, 393
analytic, 425
core properties 426
function 420
angular momentum, 169–172, 176–178, 189,
354
angular velocity, 170, 189
annulus, 424
anti-commutator, 207
antisymmetric, 370 –372, 393
area element, 221
area mass density, 219
area vector, 249, 256
arithmetic mean, 138
associative law, 143, 146
asymptotic, 42
atlas, 436
Auburn, 308
autocorrelation function, 464
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backwards iteration, 336
barn, 234


basis, 119, 122, 125, 128, 139, 148 –158,
173–196, 299, 305, 360–390
change 192, 364, 386
coordinate 382
cylindrical 224
Hermite 205
reciprocal 373
spherical 224
Bessel, 92, 94, 111, 219, 242, 419, 448
β= 1/kT, 232, 245
bilinear concomitant, 123, 125
billiard ball, 246
binomial:
coefficient, 40, 43
series 31, 40, 49, 58, 80, 423
blizzard, 218
Bolivia, 436
boundary condition, 95, 123–127, 269, 286,
288, 291, 292, 296, 305, 308–311
boundary value, 443
boundary value problem, 291
branch point, 426, 434–436, 441, 442
Brazil, 436
bulk modulus, 132
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Cauchy, 427, 443
Cauchy sequence, 159, 165
Cauchy-Schwartz inequality, 152, 156 –158, 160
Cayley-Hamilton Theorem, 205
central limit theorem, 44

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