The First Edition of Numerical Methods  was published in 1993 in response to requests from users of Numerical Analysis for a book that covers the material in Numerical Analysis, but is more intuitively motivated. It was felt that certain students in computer science and  engineering would gain from having a presentation that sacrificed some mathematical rigor a compression of the subject material. We retained all of the methods from Numerical Analysis, but we rewrote all of the discussion to give a more intuitive presentation.

The First Edition of Numerical Methods suffered from the lack of the algorithm listings that we present in Numerical Analysis. The Second Edition, published in 1998, overcame this weakness by including quite extensive computer algebra code, in Maple V, and by including a disk with the book which had programs for each method in the book in the computer languages  C, FORTRAN, and Pascal, as well as worksheets for each method in the computer algebra systems Maple, Matlab, and Mathematica.

The Third Edition of this book was released by Brooks-Cole in 2003. We have added a great deal of additional Computer Algebra System material to the book, and added new sections on the Conjugate Gradient Method and on Homotopy methods.

Further details concerning the book can be found at the Brooks-Cole website.

The disk accompanying the book contains programs in C, FORTRAN, and Pascal for all the methods, and worksheets for the Computer Algebra Systems Maple, Mathematica, and MATLAB.

For the convenience of those who may not have the disk, we  have placed all the material on the disk at the site Numerical-Methods Disk Material. Please observe that this is copyright material and licensed only to students and faculty at schools that are currently using the Third Edition of Numerical Methods by Faires and Burden.

Accompanying Numerical Methods Third Edition is a Student Solutions Manual that includes detailed solutions to representative exercises, particularly those that extend the theory in the text. The first Chapter of the Student Solutions Manual is available as a PDF file here.

If you have any comments about the current edition, or  suggestions for a future edition, please contact us at  burden@math.ysu.edu or at  faires@math.ysu.edu  .

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