Description
Numerical Methods is written for undergraduate and graduate students majoring in engineering and sciences. Mathematical theories and techniques as modified, extended and customized to tackle and solve applied problems arising in the various fields of engineering and sciences fall under the general subject area of numerical methods.
It provides a basic mathematical concepts and connects them to the numerical techniques. This book provides explanations of the numerical techniques in such a way that students should be able to develop their own algorithms and implement them with the help of software of their choice. Straightforward numerical examples have been provided to help students understand the techniques.
This book is written based on the course notes the author has developed over two decades of teaching the subject matter at the University of Saskatchewan. Depending on the course objectives of a discipline, the chapters can be taught in a different sequence than the one presented in this book. It is necessary that the students have already taken first-year university level courses on elementary calculus, linear algebra and introductory differential equations.