Number-crunching
Subtitle: taming unruly computational problems from mathematical physics to science
By: Paul J. Nahin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780691144252
Subjects: Problems, exercises; Mathematical physics; Data processing
Description: xxvi, 376 p. : 24 cm
Notes: "A collection of challenging problems in mathematical physics that roar like lions when attacked analytically, but which purr like kittens when confronted by a high-speed electronic computer and its powerful scientific software (plus some speculations for the future from science fiction)"

Includes bibliographical references and index.