Scientific Computing with MATLAB and Octave

• Main Authors: Quarteroni, Alfio (Author), Saleri, Fausto (Author), Gervasio, Paola (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Edition: 4th ed. 2014.
• Series: Texts in Computational Science and Engineering, 2
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Chemistry, Physical and theoretical.; Computer mathematics.; Visualization.; Physics.; Computational intelligence.; 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-based solution of certain classes of mathematical problems are illustrated. The authors show how to compute the zeros, the extrema, and the integrals of continuous functions, solve linear sy...