Bücher von Rainer Kress

No applied mathematician can be properly trained without some basic un- derstanding ofnumerical methods, Le., numerical analysis. And no scientist and engineer should be using a package program for numerical computa- tions without understanding the program's purpose and its limitations. This book is an attempt to provide some of the required knowledge and understanding. It is written in a spirit that considers numerical analysis not merely as a tool for solving applied problems but also as a challenging and rewarding part of mathematics. The main goal is to provide insight into numerical analysis rather than merely to provide numerical recipes. The book evolved from the courses on numerical analysis I have taught since 1971 at the University ofGottingen and may be viewed as a successor of an earlier version jointly written with Bruno Brosowski [10] in 1974. It aims at presenting the basic ideas of numerical analysis in a style as concise as possible. Its volume is scaled to a one-year course, i.e., a two-semester course, addressing second-yearstudents at a German university or advanced undergraduate or first-year graduate students at an American university.

In this fourth edition, a number of significant additions have been made including a new chapter on transmission eigenvalues and a new section on the impedance boundary condition where particular attention has been made to the generalized impedance boundary condition and to nonlocal impedance boundary conditions.

This book, now in its third edition, is an excellent introductory text for students, scientists and engineers who want to learn the basic theory of linear integral equations and their numerical solution. Features problems at the end of each chapter.

This book covers the mathematical and numerical analysis of the inverse scattering problem for acoustic and electromagnetic waves.