Description: "The book reads like an unfolding story... Topics are motivated with great care and ingenuity that might be given to establishing the drive behind characters in a good novel... Clarity is never sacrificed for elegance. Above all, the pace is always lively and brisk, the writing concise, and the author never lets the exposition bog down... Both the theoretical problems and machine assignments are a great resource... This is a stylish, lucid, and engaging book... [It] successfully conveys the author's interest and experience in the subject to the reader." --SIAM Review "An excellent text for a first graduate course in numerical analysis, excluding both linear algebra and PDEs... The book's emphasis is firmly on the analysis of the various problems and methods. The level of this analysis is appropriate for the envisaged course. This is a well written, well-produced, rigorous treatment of approximation, nonlinear equations, numerical differentiation and integration, and ordinary differential equations... Each chapter concludes with a substantial set of exercises covering all the chapter's topics and extending students' understanding with some new material. Some of these exercises are substantial and will challenge the best students... A sound introduction... A one-stop shopping guide to the current state-of-the-art." --Computing Reviews "This book is well written... Every teacher should look at this textbook to see how this material has been presented by a numerical analyst with many years of teaching experience and a high reputation." --Computing Reviews "...[The book concentrates] on matters related to machine arithmetic and conditioning, computer approximation and interpolation, numerical differentiation and integration, nonlinear equations, initial value problems...and two-point boundary value problems for ODEs. The book contains many exercises, machine problems, a prologue with useful material including listings of major journals and pointers to software resources and relevant literature." --IEEE CS&E Bookshelf

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