Product Description: Useful to programmers and stimulating for theoreticians, this text offers a balanced presentation accessible to those with a background in calculus. Topics include approximate integration over finite and infinite intervals, error analysis, approximate integration in two or more dimensions, and automatic integration...read more

Product Description: Outstanding text treats numerical analysis with mathematical rigor, but relatively few theorems and proofs. Oriented toward computer solutions of problems, it stresses errors in methods and computational efficiency. Problems — some strictly mathematical, others requiring a computer — appear at the end of each chapter...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)