Schaum's Outline of Numerical Analysis

Overview

If you want top grades and thorough understanding of numerical analysis, this powerful study tool is the best tutor you can have! It takes you step-by-step through the subject and gives you accompanying related problems with fully worked solutions. You also get additional problems to solve on your own, working at your own speed. (Answers at the back show you how you’re doing.) Famous for their clarity, wealth of illustrations and examples—and lack of dreary minutiae—Schaum’s Outlines have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. This guide will show you why!

Table of contents

What Is Numerical Analysis? The Collocation Polynomial.
Finite Differences.
Factorial Polynomials.
Summation.
The Newton Formula.
Operators and Collocation Polynomials.
Unequally-Spaced Arguments.
Splines.
OsculatingPolynomials.
The Taylor Polynomial.
Interpolation.
Numerical Differentiation.
Numerical Integration.
Gaussian Integration.
Singular Integrals.
Sums and Series.
Difference Equations.
Differential Equations.
Differential Problems of Higher Order.
Least-Squares Polynomial Approximation.
Min-Max Polynomial Approximation.
Approximation By Rational Functions.
Trigonometric Approximation.
Nonlinear Algebra.
Linear Systems.
Linear Programming.
Overdetermined Systems.
Boundary Value Problems.
Monte Carlo Methods.

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