First Course in Numerical Analysis - Softcover

Anthony Ralston; Philip Rabinowitz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070855862 ISBN 13: 9780070855861

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 1979

Synopsis

This outstanding text by two well-known authors treats numerical analysis with mathematical rigor, but presents relatively few theorems and proofs. Oriented toward computer solutions of problems, it stresses errors in methods and computational efficiency, and it compares different solutions to the same problem.Following an introductory chapter on sources of error and computer arithmetic, the text covers such topics as approximation and algorithms, interpolation, numerical differentiation and numerical quadrature, the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations, functional approximation by least squares and by minimum-maximum error techniques, the solution of nonlinear equations and of simultaneous linear equations, and the calculation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices.This second edition also includes discussions of spline interpolation, adaptive integration, the fast Fourier transform, the simplex method of linear programming, and simple and double QR algorithms. Problems — some strictly mathematical, others requiring a computer — appear at the end of each chapter.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070855862
• ISBN 13: 9780070855861
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 556