An Introduction to Scientific Computing with Matlab(r) and Python Tutorials

This textbook covers essential numerical techniques including basic methods for linear systems, root finding, interpolation, numerical integration and differentiation, least squares and Monte Carlo methods. This book balances the development, implementation, application and analysis of computational ideas and methods.

Sheng Xu is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. His research areas are in the field of fluid mechanics and scientific computing, with specialization in computational fluid dynamics (CFD). He has written a few CFD packages to simulate fluid-solid interactions using the immersed interface method.