William Robert Mann (September 21, 1920 – January 20, 2006) was a mathematician from

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. Mann worked in

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. He was the discoverer and eponym of the Mann iteration, a

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in a

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. He was one of Frantisek Wolf's students.

Publications

*William Robert Mann, Mean value methods in iteration, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 4, 1953, 506–510 *William Robert Mann and Angus Ellis Taylor, Advanced Calculus, 3rd Edition, John Wiley and Sons, 1983

References

External links

*''Chapel Hill Memories''

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