Monte Carlo: Concepts, Algorithms, and Applications

Fishman, George

ISBN 10: 038794527X / ISBN 13: 9780387945279

Published by Springer, New York, NY, 1996

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Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 698 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Tables, black & white. Springer Operations Research and Financial Engineering. Audience: General/trade. Very good in very good dust jacket. light shelfwear po name inside, no other inscriptions, no jacket as issued. Seller Inventory # Alibris.0021009

Bibliographic Details

Title: Monte Carlo: Concepts, Algorithms, and ...

Publisher: Springer, New York, NY

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Hard cover

Edition: 2nd ed.

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Synopsis:

Apart from a thorough exploration of all the important concepts, this volume includes over 75 algorithms, ready for putting into practice. The book also contains numerous hands-on implementations of selected algorithms to demonstrate applications in realistic settings. Readers are assumed to have a sound understanding of calculus, introductory matrix analysis, and intermediate statistics, but otherwise the book is self-contained. Suitable for graduates and undergraduates in mathematics and engineering, in particular operations research, statistics, and computer science.

From the Back Cover:

This volume presents a comprehensive first course in the Monte Carlo method which will be suitable for graduate and undergraduate students in the mathematical sciences and engineering, principally operations research, statistics, mathematics, and computer science. The reader is assumed to have a sound understanding of calculus, introductory matrix analysis, probability, and intermediate statistics, but otherwise the book is self-contained. As well as a thorough exploration of the important concepts of the Monte Carlo method, the volume includes over 90 algorithms which allow the reader to move rapidly from the concepts to putting them into practice. The book also contains numerous exercises, many of them hands-on implementations of selected algorithms to demonstrate the application of these ideas in realistic settings. Software, freely available via ftp and portable across computing platforms, provides programs for pseudorandom number generation and statistical sample path data analysis. The software is suitable for use with the exercises as well as for more general applications. For professional mathematical scientists and engineers this book provides a ready reference to the Monte Carlo method, especially to implementable algorithms for performing sampling experiments on a computer and for analyzing their results.