Book draft (2012)—feedback welcome

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Lessons in Computational Physics

Formerly known as "The Third Branch of Physics: Essays on Scientific Computing"

Norbert Schörghofer

Frontmatter

  1. Analytic and Numeric Solutions; Chaos
  2. Themes of Numerical Analysis
  3. Roundoff and Number Representation
  4. Programming Tools
  5. Physics Sampler
  6. Discrete Approximations of the Continuum
  7. From Programs to Data Analysis
  8. Performance Basics
  9. Deep inside Computers
  10. Counting Operations
  11. Random Numbers and Stochastic Methods
  12. Algorithms, Data Structures, and Complexity
  13. Symbolic Computation
  14. A Crash Course on Partial Differential Equations
  15. Reformulated Boundary-Value Problems
Appendix A: Answers to Brainteasers
Appendix B: Notes

Updates

Jan 2012: Some more changes and additions

Jan 2012: Changed the title of the book, based on advice from others.

Sep 2011: Finally got around to make changes and additions; among the additions is information about GPUs

Email author at norbert@hawaii.edu