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Ferziger's first edition appeared as a four-chapter work (CH, May`82). As he notes, computational technology has changed greatly since then. Today's engineers typically use powerful workstations configured with multiple software applications, often including one or more mathematical packages for problem solving and design implementation. Improved methods and new algorithms for solving differential equations have evolved over this period, too. This new edition takes these changes into account, adds some supplemental background review material on linear algebra, and selectively includes additional material and many more examples in its new eight-chapter format. This insightful book may be used either as a text or reference for the study or review of numerical methods for solving linear equations, performing interpolations and integration, and solving a broad spectrum of ordinary and partial differential equations. The solution methods are explained in a straightforward way with minimal background theory and illustrated through descriptive examples. Problems are included at the ends of chapters, and a list of the computer codes described in the book are cited in an appendix with instructions for obtaining them via the Internet. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. E. M. Aupperle; University of Michigan