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Numerical Methods in Engineering with Python, 2nd Edition is a text for engineering students and a reference for practicing engineers, especially those who wish to explore Python. This new edition features 18 additional exercises and the addition of rational function interpolation. Brent's method of root finding was replaced by Ridder's method, and the Fletcher-Reeves method of optimization was dropped in favor of the downhill simplex method. Each numerical method is explained in detail, and its shortcomings are pointed out. The examples that follow individual topics fall into two categories: hand computations that illustrate the inner workings of the method and small programs that show how the computer code is utilized in solving a problem. This second edition also includes more robust computer code with each method, which is available on the book Web site. This code is made simple and easy to understand by avoiding complex bookkeeping schemes, while maintaining the essential features of the method. |
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Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Performance Optimization and Tuning HandbookMy last SQL Server performance book was aimed at SQL Server 6.5. When Microsoft released SQL Server 7.0 it was almost as if it were a new product. Although it was backward compatible in many areas with SQL Server 6.5, the architecture was very different. For starters, the on-disk structure was completely changed. The usage of files... | | Mac OS X: The Complete Reference
This book is complete: my checklists and FileMaker databases have cross-indexed features, preferences, and the applications that ship with Mac OS X, to make certain that everything shows up somewhere in the book. It has been revised against the second update—Mac OS X 10.0.2. We have tried to include screen shots of almost every feature,... | | SIP: Understanding the Session Initiation Protocol, Second EditionThe Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a new signaling, presence and instant messaging protocol developed to set up, modify, and tear down multimedia sessions, request and deliver presence and instant messages over the Internet [1]. This chapter covers some background for the understanding of the protocol. SIP was developed by... |
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