Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers
$80.74
- Paperback
752 pages
- Release Date
9 November 1987
Summary
This inexpensive paperback edition of a groundbreaking text stresses frequency approach in coverage of algorithms, polynomial approximation, Fourier approximation, exponential approximation, and other topics. Revised and enlarged 2nd edition.
Numerical analysis is a subject of extreme interest to mathematicians and computer scientists, who will welcome this first inexpensive paperback edition of a groundbreaking classic text on the subject. In an introductory chapter on numerical meth…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780486652412 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0486652416 |
| Author: | Richard W. Hamming |
| Publisher: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Imprint: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 752 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 9 November 1987 |
| Weight: | 875g |
| Dimensions: | 39mm x 136mm x 215mm |
| Series: | Dover Books on Mathema 1.4tics |
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Richard W. Hamming
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
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