Numerical methods with worked examples: Matlab edition

Numerical Methods with Worked Examples: Matlab Edition

Volumn 9789400713666, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-256

  Woodford, C ^a   Phillips, C ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; MATLAB;

COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; INTRODUCTORY COURSE; LEARNING BY DOING; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; THEORETICAL TREATMENTS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84930896909     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1366-6     Document Type: Book

References (9)

1. www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/.
2. David Hilbert, 1862-1943. In 1900 he put forward a list of 23 important unsolved problems some of which remain unsolved.
3. Joseph Raphson, 1648-1715, English mathematician credited with the independent discovery of Newton's method for solving equations numerically.
4. Brook Taylor 1685-1731, published his theorem in 1715 although others were able to make similar claims. The theorem began to carry his name some fifty years later. He somewhat aggressively promoted Newton's work over that of Leibniz and other European mathematicians.
5. E.H. Neville, 1889-1961, among many other achievements instrumental in bringing wondermathematician Ramanujan to Cambridge to study with the eminent pure mathematician G.H. Hardy.
6. Roger Cotes, 1682-1716. Mathematician and Astronomer who worked closely with Newton. However there was some doubt as to his commitment. According to fellow astronomer Halley he missed a total eclipse being 'opprest by too much company'.
7. Martin Kutta, engineer and mathematician, 1867-1944 introduced the method in his PhD thesis (1900), which was developed further by Carl Runge, physicist and mathematician, 1856-1927.
8. John G.F. Francis, English computer scientist (1934-). Working independently Russian mathematician Vera Kublanovskaya also proposed the method in the same year.
9. http://www.mathworks.com/moler/random.pdf.