Intro to Parallel Vector Sci Comput: 41 (Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics, Series Number 41) - Softcover

Shonkwiler, Ronald W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521683378 ISBN 13: 9780521683371

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

In this introductory text, the fundamental algorithms of numerical linear algebra are developed in a parallel context.

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About the Authors

Ronald W. Shonkwiler is a Professor in the School of Mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has authored or co-authored over 50 research papers in areas of functional analysis, mathematical biology, image processing algorithms, fractal geometry, neural networks and Monte Carlo optimization methods. His algorithm for monochrome image comparison is part of a US patent for fractal image compression. He has co-authored two other books, An Introduction to the Mathematics of Biology and The Handbook of Stochastic Analysis and Applications.

Lew Lefton is the Director of Information Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he has built and maintained several computing clusters which are used to implement parallel computations. Prior to that he was a tenured faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at the University of New Orleans. His academic interests are in differential equations, applied mathematics, numerical analysis (in particular, finite element methods) and scientific computing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521683378
• ISBN 13: 9780521683371
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 306