Numerical mathematics and computing. / (Record no. 1671)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0534351840 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QA276.C41 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Cheney, Ward. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Numerical mathematics and computing. / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Ward Cheney and David Kincaid |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 4 ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Bonn: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Brooks/Cole publishing, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1999. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xv,671 p.: |
| Other physical details | ill.; |
| Dimensions | 24cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Contents: Introduction: Preliminary remarks -- Programming suggestions -- Review of Taylor series -- Number representation and errors: Representation of numbers in diferent bases -- Floating-point representation -- Loss of significance -- Locating roots of equations: Bisection method -- Newton's method -- Secant method -- Interpolation and numerical differentiation: Preliminary remarks -- Polynomial interpolation -- Errors in polynomial interpolation -- Estimating derivatives and Richardson extrapolation -- Numerical integration -- Definite integral -- Trapezoid rule -- Romberg algorithm -- An Adaptive Simpson's scheme -- Gaussian quadrature formulas -- Systems of linear equations: Naive gaussian elimination -- Gaussian elimination with scaled partial pivoting -- Tridiagonal and banded systems -- LU factorization -- Iterative solution of linear equations -- Approximation by spline functions: Introduction -- First-degree and second-degree splines -- Natural cubic splines -- B splines -- Interpolation and approximation B splines -- Ordinary differential equations: Initial-value problem: Analytical vs. numerical solution -- Taylor series methods -- Runge-Kutta methods -- Stability and adaptive Runge-Kutta and multi-step methods -- Systems of ordinary differential equations -- Higher-order equations and systems -- Adams-Moulton methods -- Smoothing of data and the method of least squares: The Method of least squares -- Orthogonal systems and chebyshev polynomials -- Other examples of the least-squares principle -- Monte Carlo methods and simulation: Random numbers -- Estimation of areas and volumes by Monte Carlo techniques -- Simulation -- Boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations: Preliminary remaks -- Shooting method -- A Discretization method -- Partial differential equations: Introduction -- Parabolic problems -- Hyperbolic problems -- Elliptic problems -- Minimization of multivariante functions: Inteduction -- One-variable case -- Multivariate case -- Linear programming: Standard forms and duality -- Simple method -- Approximate solution of inconsistent linear systems -- Appendix A: Linear algebra concepts and notation: Elemetary concepts -- Abstract vector spaces -- Appendix B: Mathematical software. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Kincaid, Ward. |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
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| Library of Congress Classification | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA - MAIN LIBRARY | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA - MAIN LIBRARY | General Stacks | 09/07/2012 | QA276.C41 | 4814/12 | 09/07/2012 | 1 | 09/07/2012 | Books | |||||
| Library of Congress Classification | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA - MAIN LIBRARY | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA - MAIN LIBRARY | General Stacks | 09/07/2012 | QA276.C411 | 4815/12 | 09/07/2012 | 2 | 09/07/2012 | Books | |||||
| Library of Congress Classification | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA - MAIN LIBRARY | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA - MAIN LIBRARY | General Stacks | 09/07/2012 | QA276.C412 | 4816/12 | 09/07/2012 | 3 | 09/07/2012 | Books |