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THE ART OF SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION
A Problem Oriented Approach
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Author:    Richard Crandall
Title: The Art of Scientific Computation:
   A Problem Oriented Approach
Electronic Component:  DOS floppy disk
Estimated Price:   $42.95
ISBN:  0-387-97808-9
Projected Bound Book Date: December 15, 1992
Length:    400 pages
Trim Size: 6 1/8  x  9 1/4

Special Features:
 
o  Contains chapters on modern research subjects, including wavelets and fast
Fourier transforms
o  Attractive chapter openings with halftones
o  End of chapter exercises
o  Class-tested
o  DOS floppy disk with interactive problems/examples
o  Author recognition

Primary Market:
 
Senior/Graduate level textbook adoption courses taught in sciences, computer
science, mathematics, possibly some engineering; interdisciplinary.

Book Information:
 
This book is based on a survey course taught in the Physics Department at Reed
College by the author. The course is taken by advanced undergraduate students
preparing to do further studies and research in the sciences, mathematics and
engineering. The course-and the book-gives them the requisite mathematical and
computer science tools and basic information they will need to do further
computational work. There is more than enough material for a one-term course.
 
In addition to course use, this work will also find application as a ready
reference, both as a review of essentials and as an introduction to exciting
modern topics such as wavelets and fast Fourier transforms.
Author Information:
 
Richard Crandall is Chief Scientist for NeXT Computer, Inc. He held the
distinguished Chair of the Howard Vollum Professor of Science at Reed College
in Portland, Oregon. Crandall has previously authored two titles in the area of
computer programming languages for John Wiley & Sons, before authoring the very
successful Mathematica for the Sciences book published by Addison-Wesley in
1991. Crandall received the prestigious 1991 Computerworld Smithsonian Award in
the Science category for a software program called "Zilla, the Community
Supercomputer," which "recycles" the power of a community network of
workstations by using only those computers whose users are out of the office or
school setting.

Table of Contents:
 
Chapter 1: Numbers, Numbers Everywhere
   Introduction to modern numerical methods
 
Chapter 2: Symbols as Signs of the Times
   Symbolic computation
 
Chapter 3: The Realm of Huge Numbers
 
Chapter 4: The Ubiquitous FFT
   Fast Fourier Transforms
 
Chapter 5: Wavelets: New Arrivals on the Computational Scene Wavelet theory and
wavelet transforms
 
Chapter 6: Complexity Lives Everywhere
   Chaos, fractals
 
Chapter 7: Pixels, Images and All That
   Image processing
 
Chapter 8: Real-World Signals
   Sound and other signal processing
 
Chapter 9: The Science of Life
   Computational problems from chemistry and biology
 
Chapter 10:Where Theory and Computation Meet
   Computational physics