Generalizing the arithmetic geometric mean - a hapless computer experiment

DOI10.1155/S016117128900027XMaRDI QIDQ919468zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jaak Peetre

Publication date 1989

Published in International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/46509

zbMATH Keywords

arithmetic-geometric meanasymptoticsBorchardt meanconvergenceelliptic integrals and functionsinterpolationiterative processesMeissel mean

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Iteration of real functions in one variable (26A18) Topological dynamics (37B99) Iteration theory, iterative and composite equations (39B12) Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60) Abstract approximation theory (approximation in normed linear spaces and other abstract spaces) (41A65)

Review text

As the title shows, this paper contains more of a chat about the author's trials and tribulations around Gauss's medium arithmetico-geometricum and similar iterative processes of Meissel and of Borchardt (which start with 3 or 4 numbers, respectively) than solid results. He surveys, however, several of those too and states some problems and conjectures, one of which, as he points out at the end of the paper, has been solved ``in a truly marvelous paper by \textit{J. M. Borwein} and \textit{P. B. Borwein} [Math. Comput. 53, No.187, 311-326 (1989; Zbl 0675.30023)]. \{Reviewer's remark: The paper is carelessly typeset: abstract is twice printed, ``link in the first line of p. 236 should be ``line, etc. There are also some unusual notations, like ``\(=^{fed}\) for ``=:.\}

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