TY - CHAP AU - Murua Uria, Ander AU - Sanz Serna, Jesús María PY - 2015 SN - 978-7-04-043453-8 UR - http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/28913 AB - This paper provides a brief history of B-series and the associated Butcher group and presents the new theory of word series and extended word series. B-series (Hairer and Wanner 1976) are formal series of functions parameterized by rooted... LA - eng PB - Higher Education Press TI - Formal series and numerical integrators: some history and some new techniques ER -