About this title: This well-respected text gives an introduction to the modern approximation techniques and explains how, why, and when the techniques can be expected to work. The authors focus on building students' intuition to help them understand why the techniques presented work in general, and why, in some situations, they fail. With a wealth of examples and exercises, the text demonstrates the relevance of numerical analysis to a variety of disciplines and provides ample practice for students.The applications chosen demonstrate concisely how numerical methods can be, and often must be, applied in real ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. With CD! Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Date Published: 2000-12-29
ISBN-13:9780534382162ISBN:0534382169
Description: Very Good. 7th Edition. Cover has slight shelf wear. Text unmarked, pages, clean and bright. Includes CD. *Ships Next Business day* read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780534915858ISBN:053491585X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: PWS Pub. Co
Date Published: 1989-01
ISBN-13:9780534915858ISBN:053491585X
Description: Excellent Condition. Hardcover, Excellent Condition, text is clean/unmarked, tight binding, minor edge/cover wear, from a private collection. read more
Description: Acceptable. "3rd ed., Hardback, Good, Richard L. Burden, J. Douglas Faires, Albert C. Reynolds Underlining (pencil) Medium Regular Pages; , numerical analysis. " read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: PWS-Kent Pub Co, Boston
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780534915858ISBN:053491585X
Description: Near Fine. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. No markings, NFine; no Dj perhaps as issued. Glossy boards, 729pp, index. This fourth edition has restructured chapters, additional exercises, more emphasis on graphical representation. (3.2 WL FO 21/4. read more
Edition: 5th Edition, English Language
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN-13:9780534932190ISBN:0534932193
Description: Very Good; 1994. 0534932193. Very nice copy-does not appear to be marked.; Hardcover; PWS Publishing Company; Boston; Third Printing; 9.5 x 1.25 x 8 Inches; 768 pages; , read more
Edition: I.S. ED
Publisher: THOMSON LEARNG
Date Published: 0100
ISBN-13:9780534404994ISBN:0534404995
Description: BRAND NEW. (850 pages) an accessible introduction to the modern approximation techniques which explains why and when the techniques can be expected to work. authors faires, j. (youngstown state university, usa) burden, richard l. (youngstown state university, usa) edition i.s. ed ( ) read more
"As with many textbooks on science, I use this book as a tool (in this case a borrowed tool), not reading the book from cover to cover, but rather using it to read up on whatever part of it I happen to need at the moment. I have certainly not read all parts of the book, but find those parts I have read a nice mathematically inclined description of the central conepts and methods of numerical analysis. The text's focus is very much on the what and why theoretical aspects of numerical analysis, rather than on the how-to aspects of numerical methods in practice.
The book does unfortunately suffer from a lay-out style that seems to have become popular with text books in the mathematical sciences the last fifteen or so years. While the pages certainly look, stylish, clean and modern, I find myself having difficulties trying to get an immediate overview of what is main text, suplementary text, definitions, theorems, examples etcetera.
Once we are past the lay-out issues, the text gives a thorough introduction to the mathematical aspects of numerical problem solving. Despite its thickness, the book does not waste space by endless babbling the way many American textbooks tend to do, but gives a fairly succinct account for its material, while giving ample space to pseudo-code descriptions of the numerical algorithms.
For practical use when working with numerical scienctific computing, this book does need to be complemented with a more hands-on, how-to-do-it book of numerical methods, but my impression currently is that it serves its purpose as a readable text on the underlying theoretical aspects."
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