Learning Numerical Analysis Through DERIVE

Résumé du livre

This text covers the major numerical methods, and their analysis, for first courses at college and undergraduate level. The relative merits of each method are covered both analytically, providing a grounding in the algebraic approach, and practically, through computer lab-based activities. Each chapter includes the development and algebraic analysis of the methods, lab-based activities, ideas for coursework, case studies, exercises and solutions. Free supporting utility files are downloadable via Chartwell-Bratt's web server. Topics covered include: recurrence relations; approximation of functions by polynomials (in particular the Taylor polynomial); errors associated with numerical methods; numerical approaches to the calculus of differentiation and integration; and numerical methods of solving differential equations.