An Analysis of the Finite Element Method - Softcover

Strang, Gilbert; Fix, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0980232708 ISBN 13: 9780980232707

Publisher: Wellesley-Cambridge Press, 2008

Synopsis

This second edition has two parts. The first part is the complete classic by Strang and Fix, first published in 1973. The second part is a new textbook by Strang. It provides examples, codes, and exercises to connect the theory of the Finite Element Method directly to the applications.

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About the Authors

Gilbert Strang received his Ph.D. from UCLA and since then he has taught at MIT. He has been a Sloan Fellow and a Fairchild Scholar and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Professor of Mathematics at MIT and an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College. Professor Strang has published eight textbooks. He received the von Neumann Medal of the US Association for Computational Mechanics, and the Henrici Prize for applied analysis. The first Su Buchin Prize from the International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the Haimo Prize from the Mathematical Association of America, were awarded for his contributions to teaching around the world.

George Fix (1939–2002) was a pioneer in finite elements and phase field methods. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1968. Over the span of his career he was chairman of the mathematics departments of Carnegie Mellon University, University of Texas at Arlington and Clemson University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wellesley-Cambridge Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0980232708
• ISBN 13: 9780980232707
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 400