Projects in Scientific Computation - Hardcover

Crandall, Richard E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0387978089 ISBN 13: 9780387978086

Publisher: Springer, 1995

Synopsis

This interdisciplinary book provides a compendium of projects, plus numerous example programs for readers to study and explore. Designed for advanced undergraduates or graduates of science, mathematics and engineering who will deal with scientific computation in their future studies and research, it also contains new and useful reference materials for researchers. The problem sets range from the tutorial to exploratory and, at times, to "the impossible". The projects were collected from research results and computational dilemmas during the authors tenure as Chief Scientist at NeXT Computer, and from his lectures at Reed College. The content assumes familiarity with such college topics as calculus, differential equations, and at least elementary programming. Each project focuses on computation, theory, graphics, or a combination of these, and is designed with an estimated level of difficulty. The support code for each takes the form of either C or Mathematica, and is included in the appendix and on the bundled diskette. The algorithms are clearly laid out within the projects, such that the book may be used with other symbolic numerical and algebraic manipulation products

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From the Publisher

This interdisciplinary book provides a compendium of projects, together with a large number of example programs for readers to study and explore. The book is designed for advanced undergraduate or graduate students of science, mathematics and engineering who will deal with scientific computation in their future studies and research. It also contains new and useful reference materials for researchers. These projects were collected from research results and computational dilemmas during the author's tenure as Chief Scientist at NeXT Computer, Inc. and from his scientific computation lectures in the Department of Physics at Reed College. The content assumes familiarity with such college topics as calculus, differential equations, and at no known direct competitors, but a paperbound book published by SIAM in 1990, "Scientific Computation on Mathematical Problems and Conjectures," CBMS 60, by Richard Varga from Kent State University, contains intellectual seed for Cran! dall's exposition; it is not a textbook, however.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387978089
• ISBN 13: 9780387978086
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 470