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Summary: Well done.
Review: Excellent introduction to numerical methods in physics. As an undergraduate with little prior programming experience, I had no real trouble with this book. But it isn't exactly a walk in the park, either. Genuinely challenging and interesting problems, many of them theoretical in nature (try the problem on Numerov's method!). Extensive references. ...
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Summary: Book Great for Students, Working Engineers and the Layman!
Review: I got this book because I wanted a more modern reading on numerical techniques. This book delivers this and more. Not only does it include psuedo code, but it also includes actual USEFUL code in matlab and in C++. The examples are all useful for doing either problems for the workplace, or as a textbook/supplement for a course on numerical analysis. The book also gives good physical and 'numerical' insight to the code and technique involved. If I had one numerical book to take with me, this would be it. I'm sure I would develop other techniques based on what I learned from this book.
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Summary: A very useful book with alot of useful code
Review: I have attended Professor Garcia's first year grad class in computational physics and it was very good. Professor Garcia is a very clear lecturer and I think this comes through in his book. The book breaks down the problem of numerical methods to very simple bite size chunks and provides a very interesting way to learn numerical methods by immediately applying it to interesting real world problems. this book allows you to feel like you are learning and applying numerical methods almost immediately. There are entire programs listed in the book and in an accompanying disk which can be used in the solution of the problems. One simply edits and adds to these programs to solve most of the problems. Afterwards you have a good collection of generic code which can be put together to solve other problems. The book includes the code in C++ and Matlab. (older edition had fortran and matlab) Professor Garcia is a person who works in the area of computational fluid dynamics and statistical mechanics, both very computational areas, hence he is well qualified to write this text. There are a good number of problems and answers to a number of these, so the book is also useful for self study. Try it you'll like it.
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