This book acquaints students of science and engineering with the modern computer's potential for solving the numerical problems that will arise in their careers. It also gives students an opportunity to hone their skills in programming and problem solving. It helps them arrive at an understanding of the important subject of errors that inevitably accompany scientific computing and arms them with methods for detecting, predicting, and controlling these errors.

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

Following suggestions and comments from readers and reviewers, we have revised various sections of the book to some degree (some more than others).
• We have removed some items (especially computer code) from the textbook and placed it on the Website so that they are easily accessible without tedious typing. This includes all of the Matlab, Mathematica, and Maple computer code, as well as an Appendix on an Overview of Mathematical Software available on the World Wide Web.
• We have added more figures and examples throughout, believing that visual aids and concrete examples are helpful to every reader. Improved examples illustrate realistic problems in computing.
• New material have been added topics, such as the modified false position method, the conjugate gradient method, Simpson's method, the finite element method, and others.
• More exercises involving applications are presented throughout.
• We have reorganized the appendices, adding some new ones, and omitting some older ones. Some material has been moved to the appendices such as number representation and additional details on the IEEE floating-point standard.
• There are additional citations to recent references and some older references have been removed.
• Additional explanatory material for difficult concepts appears throughout. This should be especially helpful for students engaged in solo study.
• The authors have made improvements to the pseudo-code for all algorithms. The pseudo-code can be readily turned into codes in C, C++, Fortran, Pascal, or other programming languages.
• Many new problems of an analytic or computational nature give students practice.
• Additional discussion of the current IEEE standards for floating-point operations on 32-bit and 64-bit machines has been added.

• Student Solutions Manual: Provides complete, worked-out solutions to most of the problems with answers in the back of the book.
• Instructor Solutions Manual: Provides complete, worked-out solutions or answers to most of the problems in the text. This manual is available ONLY to instructors who adopt the textbook for their classes.