An introduction to numerical methods. A Matlab approach. Incl. 1 CD-ROM (Q2770561)

During the past decade many textbooks about computer-based numerical analysis have been published. Usually the mathematical core of these books is the same, covering a first course of numerical analysis [see, for example, \textit{P. Henrici}, Elements of numerical analysis (1964; Zbl 0149.10901) or \textit{S. Conte} and \textit{C. de Boor}'s Elementary numerical analysis: An algorithmic approach, 3rd ed. (1980; Zbl 0496.65001)]. Computer programs are often provided (a disk, CD-ROM, internet access to a www-page) for the algorithms in the text. There is a lot of variation as regards the programming language and the choice of the platform. For teaching purposes, environments for scientific computation (some examples are MATLAB, Maple, Mathematica, Scilab, Octave, Mupad, etc.) seem to be more popular than traditional programming languages (like FORTRAN, C, C++, Pascal). NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe present book belongs to the MATLAB subspecies of numerical analysis textbooks and it comes with a CD-ROM. All the usual topics of a first course of numerical analysis are covered. The material is based on the authors' experience in teaching courses on this topic. There are a lot of exercises for the students at the end of sections and solutions to selected problems are given at the end of the book. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEEarlier books which include a similar approach are there by \textit{G. Lindfield} and \textit{J. Penny} [Numerical methods using MATLAB. 2nd ed. (2000)] and by \textit{J. H. Mathews} and \textit{U. D. Fink} [Numerical methods using MATLAB, 3rd ed. (1999)].