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 One of the best November 21, 2009
Petel (Israel)
Numerical methods for scientists and engineers is a fantastic textbook. I've always been interested in numerical analysis. Numerical analysis to me is the perfect combination: it has both mathematics and programming. A good example of this idea is Numerical Recipes in C, where you have both algorithms and their implementation. That being said, this book delivers where Numerical Recipes misses. It provides insight and understanding and explains the algorithms, not in a cookbook fashion, rather in a linear progressive method. There's not a single piece of code yet the algorithms are clearly expressed. It provides a clear understanding of methods I've used but didn't truly understand. It adds by discussing topics that aren't usually discussed in regular Numerical analysis textbooks, such as universal matrices, Stirling numbers, and Bernoulli numbers, generating functions, Riemann zeta function, Hermite interpolation, Chebyshev approximation, Adams-Bashforth and Milne methods and much, much more.
The book can be read by anyone with graduate level math background: calculus, linear algebra and ordinary differential equations. Previous knowledge of numerical analysis is not required, the first chapters cover the basics extremely well.
An excellent book October 23, 2009
Srinivasan Nenmeli Krishna (Palo Alto CA USA)
This book by Hamming is one of the excellent books which develops the topic with intuitive grasp of basics of functions and approximations...the applications are plenty,but this is not a regular undergrad text in numerical methods...You can go to Chapra & Canale or Ralston's book for an introductory text book,but keep Hamming's book by your side to read the relevant sections for depth of understanding...After all the Dover edition is really cheap and would be a reference work in your shelf.
 Good for deep understanding. Not ideal for exams July 26, 2009
Satya Shodhak (Chicago USA)
I am a Grad student and find this book fascinating. As other reviewers pointed out, this book is very good if you wish to have a solid understanding of core issues in numerical methods. The trouble is that students have to do well in exams and for that this book is not the best as it doesnt have many numerical examples. I would not recommend this book for anyone who just has to take one class in Numerical Analysis and do well in exams. But yes if you wish to get a deep understanding of the subject then you must rely on this book and no other.
Shall I June 29, 2008
Mohammad Omer (Atlanta)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
What can you say of a hamming book. Ofcourse its a classic. the style would tell you, why the guy has to be so famous. I love the nonlinear root finding treatment.
Are you technical? March 21, 2007
orgusa (Orange, Ca United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The price is immaterial. Hamming is the recognized expert in coding and many fields of mathematics. The writing is surprisingly easy to follow. (none of that - solution is left as an exercise for the student). You need this book if you do any kind of mathematics on a PC. We're talking DSP, simulations, whatever. Okay, price counts - it's cheap, outstanding info.
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