Projects in Scientific Computation

This is an interdisciplinary senior level textbook which provides a compendium of text, projects, problems and examples for readers to explore and solve in the field of scientific computing.

The book is designed for serious students of science, mathematics and engineering who will deal with scientific computation in their future studies and research.

The problem sets have been class-tested and are based on a course taught by the author at Reed College's Physics Department that assumes familiarity with calculus and differential equations.

The package includes a DOS-formatted diskette for use on a variety of computer systems.

The disk supports topic material in the text, such as computer algebra examples and graphics samples.

Topics discussed include numerical analysis (evaluation, matrix algebra, differential equations), exploratory computation (projects from mathematics, nature, biology, physics and chemistry), number theory (large-integer arithmetic, prime numbers, fast algorithms, factoring), fast Fourier transforms, wavelets, chaos and fractals, and signal processing (data compression, sound, images).