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Numerical Integration of Functionsof Several Variables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

G. W. Tyler*
Affiliation:
United States Air Force Washington 25, D.C.
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Methods of mechanical quadrature of functions of more than one variable apparently have received little systematic investigation and the few available results are widely scattered in the literature. In this paper a systematic approach to this problem is given and a number of formulae are derived which may prove to be useful.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1953

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