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Overview
"This textbook is suitable for two courses in computational physics. The first is at an advanced introductory level and is appropriate for seniors or first year graduate students. The third edition has expanded treatments of the subjects in each of the first nine chapters and a new section on modern parallel computing, in particular, Beowulf clusters." The second course (the last four chapters) deals with problems in the strong interaction using quantum mechanical techniques, with emphasis on solutions of many-body scattering problems and several-body bound state calculations with Monte Carlo techniques. It also contains a chapter dealing with the numerical summation of divergent series.Synopsis
"This textbook is suitable for two courses in computational physics. The first is at an advanced introductory level and is appropriate for seniors or first year graduate students. The third edition has expanded treatments of the subjects in each of the first nine chapters and a new section on modern parallel computing, in particular, Beowulf clusters." The second course (the last four chapters) deals with problems in the strong interaction using quantum mechanical techniques, with emphasis on solutions of many-body scattering problems and several-body bound state calculations with Monte Carlo techniques. It also contains a chapter dealing with the numerical summation of divergent series.
Booknews
The parts are distinctly different. The first is at a graduate or advanced undergraduate introductory level appropriate for good students with no previous experience in computational methods or any student with some experience. Among the methods Gibbs (New Mexico State U.) describes are integral and differential techniques, Monte Carlo integration, basic computer architecture, and methods of linear algebra. The second part is more specialized, with problems in strong interaction, emphasizing solutions to many-body scattering problems and several-body bound-state calculations with Monte Carlo techniques. The first edition was published in 1994. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)