Novak, Erich On the power of adaption. (English) Zbl 0870.65042 J. Complexity 12, No. 3, 199-237 (1996). The author compares optimal error bounds for adaptive and nonadaptive methods. He shows that a priori information about the problem strongly influences the type of better method and a small change can produce a different answer. Reviewer: A.Galántai (Miskolc-Egyetemvaros) Cited in 24 Documents MSC: 65J05 General theory of numerical analysis in abstract spaces 65D32 Numerical quadrature and cubature formulas 65R20 Numerical methods for integral equations 65H05 Numerical computation of solutions to single equations Keywords:non-numerical methods; adaptive methods; optimal error bounds; a priori information PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{E. Novak}, J. Complexity 12, No. 3, 199--237 (1996; Zbl 0870.65042) Full Text: DOI