Название: An Introduction to Computational Science Автор: Allen Holder, Joseph Eichholz
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2019
Страниц: 475
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 40.9 MB
This textbook provides an introduction to the growing interdisciplinary field of computational science. It combines a foundational development of numerical methods with a variety of illustrative applications spread across numerous areas of science and engineering. The intended audience is the undergraduate who has completed introductory coursework in mathematics and computer science. Students gain computational acuity by authoring their own numerical routines and by practicing with numerical methods as they solve computational models. This education encourages students to learn the importance of answering: How expensive is a calculation, how trustworthy is a calculation, and how might we model a problem to apply a desired numerical method?
Students pursuing undergraduate educations in STEM-related fields are exposed to calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra. They are also exposed to coursework in computer science in which they learn about complexity and some algorithmic theory. These courses commonly require students to implement algorithms in popular languages such as C, Java, Python, MATLAB, R, or Julia. However, many students experience unfortunate disconnects between what is learned in math classes and what is learned in computer science classes. This book, which is designed to support one or two undergraduate terms of study, very nicely fills this gap.
The text is written in two parts. Part I provides a succinct, one-term inauguration into the primary routines on which a further study of computational science rests. The material is organized so that the transition to computational science from coursework in calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra is natural. Beyond the mathematical and computational content of Part I, students gain proficiency with elemental programming constructs and visualization, which are presented in MATLAB syntax. The focus of Part II is modeling, wherein students build computational models, compute solutions, and report their findings. The models purposely intersect numerous areas of science and engineering to demonstrate the pervasive role played by computational science.
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