Numerical Analysis

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Numerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisL. Ridgway ScottPRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESSPRINCETON AND OXFORDCopyrightc 2011 by Princeton University PressPublished by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street,Princeton, New Jersey 08540In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 OxfordStreet,Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 Rights ReservedLibrary of Congress Control Number: 2010943322ISBN: 978-0-691-14686-7British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is availableThe publisher would like to acknowledge the author of this volume for type-setting this book using LATEX and Dr. Janet Englund and Peter Scott forproviding the cover photographPrinted on acid-free paper Printed in the United States of America10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1DedicationTo the memory of Ed Conway1who, along with his colleagues at TulaneUniversity, provided a stable, adaptive, and inspirational starting point formy

“numerical analysis” title in a later edition [171]. The origins of the part of mathematics we now call analysis were all numerical, so for millennia the name “numerical analysis” would have been redundant. But analysis later developed conceptual (non-numerical) paradigms, and it became useful to specify the different areas by names.

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