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This monograph can be considered as formed from three parts: an introduction, the main body and a number of appendices. The introduction consists of a concise review of electromagnetic theory, presented mainly in differential (local) form, for homogeneous, isotropic, time invariant media, and also of the principal analytical methods utilized in order to solve the classical problems of partial differential equations. The second part, devoted to numerical methods, has the following chapters: finite difference methods, variational methods, moment methods, finite element method, transmission-line matrix method, Monte Carlo methods. The appendices include some vector relations, a review of FORTRAN, some hints `How to write good programs', some indications for solving simultaneous equations. Every chapter includes references and problems, and almost all have also concluding remarks. Some of the appendices have also references. As an appendix answers are given to odd-numbered problems. The book includes programs in FORTRAN, a great number of tables and numerical results for the investigated problems. Problems concerning radiation and propagation in open space or over a conducting plane are not included, but scattering problems are presented. An index forms the last part of the book.