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Applied Numerical Analysis Using MATLAB
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Author: Laurene V. Fausett
List Price: $110.00
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ISBN: 0133198499
Publisher: Prentice Hall (25 February, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 251,262
Average Customer Rating: 3 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
Don't expect to learn from this
If you need a reference for various numerical methods then this book may be of use to you, but do not expect to learn anything from it. You will not be taught 'why' these methods work, or 'how' they came about--it simply lists a bunch of formulas with a few meager attempts at derivations here and there. If you want to actually understand this stuff you'll have to go elsewhere. If you just want a reference...I would still go elsewhere.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Good for reference, but don't expect to learn from this book
I used this book in a college level course, and let me tell you it is close to worthless. I gave it two stars because someone might be able to use this for some kind of whimpy reference book. Don't buy this expecting to learn much from it though. The first few chapters are ok, but later on it just glosses over many things you need in order to understand stuff.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Good Reference Book
This book is exactly as the title says. There are a lot of great sources on applied mathematics and it covers a lot of good material ranging from iterative methods to PDE's. Matlab is the software of choice and the book does a good job of making use of Matlab. The detraction to this book is the lack of rigor. The book operates under the misconceptiong that applied math doesn't have to be very analytical. As a reference book it is good resource, but as a textbook a little bit more analysis needs to be put in. This is a nice fresh idea for what Numerical Analysis should be, but could use a bit more beefing up in the analysis side. Hopefully this will come with later editions.
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