Introduction to the Tools of Scientific Computing

Einar Smith holds academic degrees in Mathematics from the Unversity of Bonn, in Economics from the University of Oslo, and in Computer Science from the University of Hamburg. He has published a textbook on Mathematical Computability Theory, and a biography of the German computer scientist C.A. Petri. Both books have been published by Springer. In recent years he has mainly been concerned with the teaching of numerical methods at the University of Bonn, with an emphasis on computer programming.

• Introduction.- Part I, Background.- Part II, Core Languages.- Part III, Commercial Computing Environments.- Part IV, Distributed Computing.- Part V, Specialized Programming Environments.- References.- Index.

“This book covers a lot of ground, and overall it does so very well. … On nearly every page, the reader can find numerous code snippets … that are explained in great detail. … I can warmly recommend it to my colleagues and STEM students as a welcome resource to help them with this decision tree.” (Andreas Mang, SIAM Review, Vol. 64 (2), June, 2022)