Publisher's Synopsis
The desire for numerical answers to applied problems has increased manifold with the advances made in various branches of science and engineering and rapid development of high-speed digital computers. Although numerical methods have always been useful, their role in the present day scientific computations and research is of fundamental importance.;This self-contained textbook designed on computational numerical methods has numerous distinguishing features. The contents of the book have been organized in a logical order and the topics are discussed in a systematic manner.;Key features of this book include: solved examples that illustrate various concepts; algorithms and numerous exercises at the end of each chapter; helps students in problem solving both manually and through computer programming; an exhaustive bibliography; and an appendix containing some important and useful iterative methods for the solution of nonlinear complex equations.
