CMPUT 499/609 Resources
Course materials:
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Michael T. Heath:
Scientific Computing. An Introductory Survey,
2nd Ed McGraw Hill 2002
Heath provides a mathematically careful treatment of core topics.
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(Optional) W. Press, S. Teukolsky, W.Vetterling and B. Flannery.
Numerical Recipes in C Cambridge University Press, 1996.
A standard reference for scientists and engineers, Numerical Recipes contains both methods and algorithms implemented in C.
In addition, the core topics in the course are covered in most books on Numerical Analysis (call number QA 297) or on Scientific Computing (call number QA 183) such as:
- Schilling, R. and Harris, S.(2000) Applied Numerical Methods for Engineers. Brooks/Cole Publishing.
- Borse, G.(1997) Numerical Methods with MATLAB, ITP Books.
- Cheney, W. and Kincaid, D.(1999) Numerical Mathemetics and Computing(4th Ed.). ITP Books.
- Alfio Quarteroni, Riccardo Sacco and Fausto Saleri: Numerical MathematicsSpringer Verlag, 2000.
