Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers

by R. W. Hamming

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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 methods and their relevance to computing, well-known mathematician Richard Hamming (""the Hamming code,"" ""the Hamming distance,"" and ""Hamming window,"" etc.), suggests that the purpose of computing is insight, not merely numbers. In that connection show more he outlines five main ideas that aim at producing meaningful numbers that will be read and used, but wil show less

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Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers

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519.4Natural sciences & mathematicsMathematicsProbabilities and applied mathematicsApplied numerical analysis
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QA297 .H28ScienceMathematicsMathematics
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