Scientific Computing with MATLAB and Octave Second Edition /

• Main Authors: Quarteroni, Alfio (Author), Saleri, Fausto (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Texts in Computational Science and Engineering, 2
• Subjects: Computer science.; Chemistry, Physical and theoretical.; Computers.; Computer mathematics.; Mathematics.; Visualization.; Physics.; Computational intelligence.; Computer Science.; Theory of Computation.; Computational Science and Engineering.; Numerical and Computational Physics.; Computational Intelligence.; Theoretical and Computational Chemistry.

This textbook is an introduction to Scientific Computing, in which several numerical methods for the computer solution of certain classes of mathematical problems are illustrated. The authors show how to compute the zeros or the integrals of continuous functions, solve linear systems, approximate fu...

Table of Contents:

• What can’t be ignored
• Nonlinear equations
• Approximation of functions and data
• Numerical differentiation and integration
• Linear systems
• Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
• Ordinary differential equations
• Numerical methods for (initial-)boundary-value problems
• Solutions of the exercises.