Book draft (2006)—feedback welcome

The Third Branch of Physics: Essays on Scientific Computing

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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