
Scientific Computation has established itself as a stand-alone area of knowledge at the borderline between computer science and applied mathematics. Nonetheless, its interdisciplinary character cannot be denied: its methodologies are increasingly used in a wide variety of...

This book intends to serve a very broad audience of college students across a variety of disciplines. It exposes its readers to some of the basic tools and techniques used in computational science, with a view to helping them understand what happens 'behind the scenes' when...