William C. Davidon

4.8k citations
36 papers · 2.7k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 16

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William C. Davidon

33 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Variable Metric Method for Minimization 1991 · 424 citations
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Peers

William C. Davidon
Comparison fields: 5 of 155
  • Numerical Analysis 353
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics 410
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics 487
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 304
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 676
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20011
2
Variable Metric Method for Minimization
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1991424
3
Notation for quasi-Newton methods
19913
4 19835
5
Conjugate Directions for Conic Functions
19822
6 198080
7 197625
8 197634
9 19750
10
Optimally Conditioned Algorithms without Line Searches
19754
11 19755
12 1968403
13
The Theory of Space, Time and Gravitation
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1965434
14
Mathematical Methods of Physics
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1965532
15 19649
16 19580
17 19579
18 195543
19 195539
20 19557

About William C. Davidon

William C. Davidon is a scholar working on Numerical Analysis, Theoretical Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Computational Theory and Mathematics, having authored 36 papers that have together received 2.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Iterative Methods for Nonlinear Equations (7 papers), Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research (7 papers), Matrix Theory and Algorithms (5 papers), Quantum Mechanics and Applications (4 papers), Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics (4 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (3 papers), Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications (3 papers) and Statistical and numerical algorithms (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Numerical Analysis (353 citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (410 citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (487 citations), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (304 citations) and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (676 citations). William C. Davidon has collaborated with scholars based in United States. Frequent co-authors include V. Fock, Jon Mathews, Philip R. Wallace, H. L. Anderson, U. Kruse, Hermann Boerner, M. L. Goldberger, Maurice Glicksman, H. Ekstein and C. H. Holbrow. Their work appears in journals such as Mathematical Programming, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Journal of the London Mathematical Society, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

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