Textbook
Elementary Numerical Analysis, 3rd EditionISBN: 978-0-471-43337-8
Hardcover
576 pages
October 2003, ©2004
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- New Chapter 9 on numerical methods for the classic second order linear partial differential equations in two variables.
- New Section 4.7 on least squares approximation of functions, including an introduction to Legendre polynomials.
- New Section 8.8 on the two-point boundary value problem.
- A rewritten section on computer arithmetic now concentrates on the IEEE floating-point format for representing numbers in computers.
- Programming language changed from Fortran to MATLAB.
- From the text's Web site at www.wiley.com/college/atkinson, instructors and students will have access to online resources: Overhead slides, MATLAB Programs, Numerical Examples, and MATLAB Programs with a Graphical User Interface.