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It is not easy to explain what is meant by the term ‘numerical methods’ except by giving examples — and the rest of this book is concerned with little else but examples. Therefore the simplest, but tautological and rather unhelpful, answer to this question is ‘they are what this book is about’. More precisely, but perhaps not much more helpfully, they are methods which can be used to obtain numerical answers to problems when, for one reason or another, we cannot or do not wish to use analytical methods.
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de Vahl Davis, G. (1986). Introduction. In: Numerical Methods in Engineering & Science. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6958-5_1
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