29.4 References and Further Reading

The algorithms used by these functions are described in the following papers,

• T. Fessler, W.F. Ford, D.A. Smith, HURRY: An acceleration algorithm for scalar sequences and series ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, 9(3):346–354, 1983. and Algorithm 602 9(3):355–357, 1983.

The theory of the u-transform was presented by Levin,

• D. Levin, Development of Non-Linear Transformations for Improving Convergence of Sequences, Intern. J. Computer Math. B3:371–388, 1973.

A review paper on the Levin Transform is available online,

• Herbert H. H. Homeier, Scalar Levin-Type Sequence Transformations, http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0005209.