This highly successful and scholarly book introduces students with diverse backgrounds to the various types of mathematical analysis that are commonly needed in scientific computing. The subject of numerical analysis is treated from a mathematical point of view, offering a complete analysis of methods for scientific computing with careful proofs and scientific background.
An in-depth treatment of the topics of numerical analysis, a more scholarly approach, and a different menu of topics sets Numerical Analysis: Mathematics of Scientific Computing, Second Edition apart form the authors' well-respected and best-selling text: Numerical Mathematics and Computing, Fourth Edition.
David Kincaid is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. Also, he is the Interim Director of the Center for Numerical Analysis (CNA) within the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES).