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From: jeffleader@aol.com (Jeffleader)
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[1] Iserles Quote on Numerical Analysis.
Date: 30 Mar 1996 18:26:15 -0500
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I just got a copy of Arieh Iserles' new "A First Course
in the Numerical Analysis of Differential Equations."
(Regrettably, he includes a chapter on "multigrid".)
As much as so many people seem to think that
numerical analysis=numerical methods=programming,
I liked his back cover info. (expanded on in the preface):

"Numerical analysis presents different faces to the world.
For the mathematicians it is a *bona fide* mathematical
theory with an applicable flavour.  For scientists and
engineers it is a practical, applied subject, part of the
standard repertoire of modeling techniques.  For computer
scientists it is a theory on the interplay of computer
architecture and algorithms for real-number calculations.
It is the tension between these standpoints that is the
driving force of this book..."

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