Download or read book Pade Approximants written by George Allen Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-26 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of this book was reviewed in 1982 as "the most extensive treatment of Pade approximants actually available." This second edition has been thoroughly updated, with a substantial new chapter on multiseries approximants. Applications to statistical mechanics and critical phenomena are extensively covered, and there are newly extended sections devoted to circuit design, matrix Pade approximation, and computational methods. This succinct and straightforward treatment will appeal to scientists, engineers, and mathematicians alike.