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Introduction to Applied Numerical Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics) (Paperback)

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This book covers an extensive range of topics, including round-off and function evaluation, real zeros of a function, integration, ordinary differential equations, optimization, orthogonal functions, and Fourier series. 1989 edition.

About the Author


Richard W. Hamming (1915-98) was an American mathematician whose work had broad implications for computer science and telecommunications. In addition to his work on the Manhattan Project, he taught at New York's City College and the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Richard W. Hamming: The Computer Icon Richard W. Hamming (1915-1998) was first a programmer of one of the earliest digital computers while assigned to the Manhattan Project in 1945, then for many years he worked at Bell Labs, and later at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He was a witty and iconoclastic mathematician and computer scientist whose work and influence still reverberates through the areas he was interested in and passionate about. Three of his long-lived books have been reprinted by Dover: Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers, 1987; Digital Filters, 1997; and Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability and Statistics, 2004. In the Author's Own Words: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts that people cannot think. Whereas Newton could say, 'If I have seen a little farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants, I am forced to say, 'Today we stand on each other's feet.' Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we build on top of the work of others rather than redoing so much of it in a trivially different way. If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work. -- Richard W. Hamming

Product Details
ISBN: 9780486485904
ISBN-10: 0486485900
Publisher: Dover Publications
Publication Date: February 15th, 2012
Pages: 350
Language: English
Series: Dover Books on Mathematics