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| Author(s): | D. O'Leary |
| Publisher: | SIAM |
| ISBN: | 9780898716665 |
| Format: | softback |
| 183pp | |
| Price: | $92.00 |
| Review Date: | 22 January 2009 |
| Review: | This is a textbook for a second course in scientific computing; it assumes that the reader has had at least one-term’s study of the topic and examples use MATLAB. The book begins with basics: how errors are introduced into scientific computing and how they can be measured. These principles are applied in the Chapter 2, where it is shown how small changes in the data can affect the answers. Chapter 3 looks at how computer memory is organised and how this affects the efficiency of the algorithms. In the last chapter the authors study the principles behind writing and documenting the algorithms. |