Scientific Programming: C-language, Algorithms And Models In Science (ePub)

The book teaches a student to model a scientific problem and write a computer program in C language to solve that problem. To do that, the book first introduces the student to the basics of C language, dealing with all syntactical aspects, but without the pedantic content of a typical programming language manual. Then the book describes and discusses many algorithms commonly used in scientific applications (e.g. searching, graphs, statistics, equation solving, Monte Carlo methods etc.).This important book fills a gap in current available bibliography. There are many manuals for programming in C, but they never explain programming technicalities to solve a given problem. This book illustrates many relevant algorithms and shows how to translate them in a working computer program.Contents:Basic Programming in C Language:Numbers and Non-NumbersProgramming LanguagesBasics of C ProgramsLogic ManagementFundamental Data StructuresPointersFunctionsNumerical Interpolation and IntegrationAdvanced Programming and Simple Algorithms:Integrating Differential EquationsIn-Depth Examination of Differential Equations(Pseudo)random NumbersRandom WalksLists, Dictionaries and PercolationBits and Boolean VariablesProgramming Advanced Algorithms:Recursion and Data SortingDynamic Data StructuresGraphs and Graph AlgorithmsOptimization MethodsThe Monte Carlo MethodHow to Use Stochastic AlgorithmsReadership: Professionals, academics, researchers and graduate students in software engineering, computational physics and numerical analysis.