John Killing beck has wrinen some eighty scientific publications, including five books. His publications range over the fields of group theory, perturbation theory and microcomputer numerical algorithms. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Guelph ( 197 4) and Besancon ( 1991). He was a Reader in Theoretical Physics at the University of Hull, where his plan to redeploy to computer science was halted by his enforced early retirement in 1989. He currently works part-time in the School of Mathematics at Hull, and intends to extend his freelance lecturing and writing activities.
... a practical and valuable resource for researchers and teachers in scientific or mathematical computing who wish to use, or to explain to others, the specific and useful microprogramming style ... for using small capacity computer systems more efficiently. A number of new and unorthodox methods are introduced and some algorithms have characteristics which have yet to be fully explored. This aspect will add spice to the appeal of the book to researchers in numerical methods generally. -The Australian Computer Journal