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The book is intended to serve as a first graduate-level text for applied mathematicians, scientists and engineers. It presents a significant body of mathematics accessible to people in various disciplines. Each chapter contains three level discussions: (1) motivation and construction of the methods under discussion, (2) practical considerations and (3) in-depth treatment of rigorous mathematical details. The authors have provided a broad selection of current numerical methods prominent in scientific applications. These include multidimensional interpolation, quasi-Newton methods, multigrid methods, QR methods for eigenvalues, multistep schemes for ordinary differential equations, consistency, stability and convergence of finite-difference schemes for partial differential equations and finite element methods. At the end of each chapter are both theoretical and computational exercises. The book contains ten chapters and three appendices and an index. The book is very useful to instructors, students, scientists and research engineers.