Guide To Scientific Computing / Edition 2

by Peter R. Turner

Overview

Guide to Scientific Computing provides an introduction to the many problems of scientific computing, as well as the wide variety of methods used for their solution. It is ideal for anyone who needs an understanding of numerical mathematics or scientific computing - whether in mathematics, the sciences, engineering, or economics.
This book provides an appreciation of the need for numerical methods for solving different types of problems, and discusses basic approaches. For each of the problems mathematical justification and examples provide both practical evidence and motivations for the reader to follow. Practical justification of the methods is presented through computer examples and exercises. The major effort of programming is removed from the reader, as are the harder parts of analysis, so that the focus is clearly on the basics. Since some algebraic manipulation is unavoidable, it is carefully explained when necessary, especially in the early stages.
Guide to Scientific Computing includes an introduction to MATLAB, but the code used is not intended to exemplify sophisticated or robust pieces of software; it is purely illustrative of the methods under discussion. The book has an appendix devoted to the basics of the MATLAB package, its language and programming. The book provides an introduction to this subject which is not, in its combined demands of computing, motivation, manipulation, and analysis, paced such that only the most able can understand.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780849312427
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/07/2000
Edition description:	Subsequent
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Peter R. Turner

Table of Contents

Number Representations and Errors. Iterative Solution of Equations. Approximate Evaluation of Functions. Interpolation. Numerical Calculus. Differential Equations. Linear Equations. MATLAB Basics. Answers to Exercises

Editorial Reviews

A textbook for an introductory course in numerical methods for majors in mathematics, science, engineering, or economics. Turner (mathematics, US Naval Academy) explains the need for the methods, how to solve different types of problems, and the basic approaches. He does not mention a date for the first edition, which was titled ; the examples are now in MATLAB rather than BASIC. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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