The Story

 

Problems worthy of attack
proof their worth by hitting back.
                                            ―Piet Hein

I can't tell you how often I see time and money wasted
because someone didn't bother to "run the numbers."
―William J. Browning

The Challenge · The Winners · Interview with Lloyd N. Trefethen · Comments by the Contestants · Relative Difficulty of the Problems

The Story as Covered in SIAM News

• Trefethen's challenge (SIAM News January/February 2002)
   
• Trefethen's announcement of winners (SIAM News June 2002, online only)
   
• Trefethen's report on the event (SIAM News July/August 2002)
   
• Keller's Letter to the Editor (SIAM News December 2002)
   
• Replies to Keller's letter (SIAM News January/February 2003)

The Story (and Solutions) as Put to the Web by Some of the Contestants

Bernard Beard, Marijke van Gans, and Brian Medley · John Boersma, Jos Jansen, Fred Simons, and Fred Steutel · Folkmar Bornemann · Carl DeVore, Toby Driscoll, Eli Faulkner, Jon Leighton, Sven Reichard, and Lou Rossi · Eric Dussaud, Chris Husband, Hoang Nguyen, Daniel Reynolds, and Christiaan Stolk · Gaston Gonnet and Robert Israel · Danny Kaplan and Stan Wagon · Michel Kern · Gerd Kunert · Dirk Laurie · Peter Robinson · Peter Simon and Kim McInturff · Eckard Specht, Martin Wohlgemuth, Clemens Raab, and Lutz Gehlen

The Story as Told Elsewhere

• Lloyd N. Trefethen.
   
• Mitch Leslie (Ed.). NetWatch. Challenge: Decimal Decathlon. Science 295 (2002), p. 1431.
   
• Gilbert Strang. Learning from 100 Numbers. Science 307 (2005), pp. 521-522.
   
• Eric W. Weisstein. Hundred-Dollar, Hundred-Digit Challenge Problems. At MathWorld―A Wolfram Web Resource.
   
• David H. Bailey and Jonathan M. Borwein. Sample Problems of Experimental Mathematics. From: Mathematics by Experiment, Plausible Reasoning in the 21st Century. A K Peters, Natick, 2004, pp. 22–26.
   
• Ann Lugg. CAAM team wins the 'SIAM 100-Dollar, 100-Digit Challenge'. Rice University News, Vol. 3, No. 2, September 5, 2002.
   
• Regina Schwendener. Die 100-Dollar-Herausforderung. ETH Life, June 3, 2002.
   
• Matroid. Die $100, 100-Digit Challenge. Matroids Matheplanet. May 21, 2002. 

The Donor

§  William J. Browning, President, Applied Mathematics, Inc.

Further Links

§  Lloyd N. Trefethen. Ten Digit Algorithms, Mitchell Lecture, Dundee, June 2005.

This is a web page for the book:

Folkmar Bornemann, Dirk Laurie, Stan Wagon, Jörg Waldvogel: The SIAM 100-Digit Challenge, A Study in High-Accuracy Numerical Computing. Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Philadelphia, 2004.

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