Description
Book Synopsis - Teaches the design of programs for scientific computation in C++
- Introduces unique C++ classes, defines the particular relationships among these classes, and demonstrates their use in a dozen of the most powerful current applications
- Presents a set of practices that allows programmers to embrace the attractive features of C++ without incurring undesired side effects and hidden costs Includes a collection of source code files downloadable from the Wiley ftp site Originally announced as Scientific Program Design: C++ for Native Fortran Writers
Trade Review"...teaches the design of programs for scientific computation in C++." (SciTech Book News, Vol. 25, No. 4, December 2001)
"With a view to teaching the design of programs...the author introduces unique C++ classes for vectors, dense matrices, and sparse matrices...demonstrates their use..." (Mechanical Engineering, www.wemagazine.org, April 2, 2002)
Table of ContentsPreafce.
Overview.
Vector ad Matrix Basics.
Sparse Matrix Basics.
Conjugate-Gradient Methods.
Triangular Matrices.
Householder Matrix Methods.
Singular Value Decomposition.
Cholesky Decomposition.
Automatic Derivatives.
Constrained Optimization.
Interior-Point Extensions.
LU Factorization.
Complex Arrays.
Fourier Transforms.
References.
Index.
