Number-crunching taming unruly computational problems from mathematical physics to science fiction /

Main Author: Nahin, Paul J.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10480689
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300 |a xxvi, 376 p. :  |b ill. 
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