Product Description: Recorded in 1984, two years before Wilkinson's death, this interview preserves some of the spirit and facts of mathematical history. He discusses his work, including the building of Turing's Pilot Automatic Computing Engine, and his involvement in the field of computation.

Product Description: The key emphasis of this book is on the practical application of ideas, focusing on straightforward ideas that can be understood, explained, and put into action. More advanced methods are covered, but they are treated in the general context of forecasting and are easily understood and useable...read more

Covers file management, programming aids, timing, debugging procedures, problem solving, nonlinear regressions, and sample applications