Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Theoretical Numerical Analysis: A Functional Analysis Framework (Texts in Applied Mathematics): Kendall Atkinson, Weimin Han

1441904573

Theoretical Numerical Analysis: A Functional Analysis Framework (Texts in Applied Mathematics): Kendall Atkinson, Weimin Han
Springer | ISBN: 1441904573 | 2009-06-02 | PDF (OCR) | 590 pages | 3.89 Mb


This textbook prepares graduate students for research in numerical analysis/computational mathematics by giving to them a mathematical framework embedded in functional analysis and focused on numerical analysis. This helps the student to move rapidly into a research program. The text covers basic results of functional analysis, approximation theory, Fourier analysis and wavelets, iteration methods for nonlinear equations, finite difference methods, Sobolev spaces and weak formulations of boundary value problems, finite element methods, elliptic variational inequalities and their numerical solution, numerical methods for solving integral equations of the second kind, and boundary integral equations for planar regions. The presentation of each topic is meant to be an introduction with certain degree of depth. Comprehensive references on a particular topic are listed at the end of each chapter for further reading and study. Because of the relevance in solving real world problems, multivariable polynomials are playing an ever more important role in research and applications. In this third editon,a new chapter on this topic has been included and some major changes are made on two chapters from the previous edition. In addition, there are numerous minor changes throughout the entire text and new exercises are added. Review of earlier edition: "...the book is clearly written, quite pleasant to read, and contains a lot of important material; and the authors have done an excellent job at balancing theoretical developments, interesting examples and exercises, numerical experiments, and bibliographical references." R. Glowinski, SIAM Review, 2003
Summary: About Theoretical Numerical Analysis
by Kendall E. Atkinson
Rating: 5
The book presents an abstract point of view of Numerical Analysis (as one can immediatly see by the title!). It is written by a master in the topic, author of more than 70 publications at the higher levels, well known for his contributions in Integral and Partial Differential Equations.
If one is interested on the basic aspects of numerical analysis, I also suggest to consider his well known manual "Elementary Numerical Analysis".
The present book presents several aspects that are not covered by most of the manuals in Numerical Analysis and highly contributes to have a wider idea of convergence and stability of some well known methods.

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