An Introduction to Numerical Analysis

I bought this as a textbook for my 3rd year Mechanical Engineering degree, and whilst it covers some of the material I needed, it is very in depth and quite "dry". Certainly a book for better mathematicians than I, but would be a great introduction for those who can stomach it.

good and fast

This was the textbook we used for my Numerical Analysis course. To be perfectly honest, I don't know if it's the the way the author presents the material or the incredibly dry and (to me at least) uninteresting subject matter or some superposition of the two, but I found it hard to learn from this book. It was the only math course in college (I took 17 total) that I finished without retaining any of the information. It's entirely possible that all current books on this subject are just as awful to read, so I hesitate to blame the author.

Considering the price that I paid, the printing and binding of the book are of very poor quality. The tracking information was useless, even on the day of delivery it was showing that only an electronic document was prepared by the shipper. It was actually on its way to Canada from India. The book came on time.

I give this a 4 out of 5 due to the errors I found in the book (minor, mostly in the exaple problems). In addition to vague number scheming in functions or algorithms for for solving functions. Otherwise a great book. Lots of material.