Scientific Computing : Vol. I - Linear and Nonlinear Equations / / by John A. Trangenstein

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910279754803321
• Autore: Trangenstein J. A (John Arthur), <1949->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017
• ISBN: 3-319-69105-8
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2017.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XXVI, 622 p. 31 illus., 20 illus. in color.)
• Collana: Texts in Computational Science and Engineering, , 2197-179X ; ; 18
• Disciplina: 510
• Soggetti: Mathematics—Data processing; Differential equations; Mathematical optimization; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis; Differential Equations; Optimization
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction to Scientific Computing -- 1. Working with a Computer -- 3. Linear Algebra -- 4. Scientific Visualization -- 5. Nonlinear Equations -- 6. Least Square Problems -- References. - Author Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This is the first of three volumes providing a comprehensive presentation of the fundamentals of scientific computing. This volume discusses basic principles of computation, and fundamental numerical algorithms that will serve as basic tools for the subsequent two volumes. This book and its companions show how to determine the quality of computational results, and how to measure the relative efficiency of competing methods. Readers learn how to determine the maximum attainable accuracy of algorithms, and how to select the best method for computing problems. This book also discusses programming in several languages, including C++, Fortran and MATLAB. There are 80 examples, 324 exercises, 77 algorithms, 35 interactive JavaScript programs, 391 references to software programs and 4 case studies. Topics are introduced with goals, literature references and links to public software. There are descriptions of the ; current algorithms in LAPACK, GSLIB and MATLAB. This book could be used for an introductory course in numerical methods, for either upper level undergraduates or first year graduate students. Parts of the text could be used for specialized courses, such as principles of computer languages or numerical linear algebra.

Victorian Noon : English Literature in 1850 / / Carl Dawson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910524702803321
• Autore: Dawson Carl
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Johns Hopkins University Press
• ISBN: 0-8018-2110-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource (xv, 268 pages) :) : illustrations
• Soggetti: English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License; Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.; Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press 1979, second printing 1980.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Poetics: The hero as poet -- In memoriam: The uses of Dante and Wordsworth -- Dramatic elegists: Arnold, Clough, and Browning at mid-century -- Phases of the soul: The Newman brothers -- "The lamp of memory": Wordsworth and Dickens -- Men of letters as hacks and heroes -- Polemics: Charles Kingsley and Alton Locke -- The germ: Aesthetic manifesto -- Postscripts: On the eve of the great exhibition.
• Sommario/riassunto: Originally published in 1979. Carl Dawson looks at the year 1850, which was an extraordinary year in English literary history, to study both the great and forgotten writers, to survey journals and novels, poems and magazines, and to ask questions about dominant influences ; and ideas. His primary aim is descriptive: How was Wordsworth's Prelude received by his contemporaries on its publication in 1850? How did reviewers respond to new tendencies in poetry and fiction/ Who were the prominent literary models? But Dawson's descriptions also lead to broader, theoretical questions about such issues as the status of the imagination in an age obsessed by mechanical invention, about the public role of the writer, the appeal to nature, and the use of myth and memory. To express the Victorians' estimation of poetry, for example, Dawson presents the contrasting views help by two eminent Victorians, Macaulay and Carlyle. In Macaulay's opinion, the advance of civilization led to the decline of poetry; Carlyle, on the other hand, saw the poet as a spiritual liberator in a world of materialists. The fusion of the poet's personal and public roles is witnessed in a discussion of the two mid-Victorian Poet Laureates, Wordsworth and his successor, Tennyson. In analyzing the relationship between the two writers' works, Dawson also highlights the extent of the Victorians' admiration for Dante. To give a wider perspective of the status of literature during this time, Dawson examines reviews, prefaces, and other remarks. Critics, he shows, made a clear distinction between poetry and fiction. Thus, in 1850, a comparison between, say, Wordsworth and Dickens would not have been made. Dawson, however, does compare the two, by focusing on their uses of autobiography. Dickens surfaces again, in a discussion of Victorian periodical publishing. Here, Dawson compares the Pre-Raphaelites' short-lived journal The Germ with Dickens' enormously popular Household Words and a radical paper, The Red Republican, which printed the first English version of "The Communist Manifesto" in 1850. In bringing together materials that have often been seen as disparate and unrelated and by suggesting new literary and ideological relationships, Carl Dawson has written a book to inform almost any reader, whether scholar of Victorian literature or lover of Dicken's novels.