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The book under review deals with numerical methods in the study of wave propagation. The main technical tool introduced here is a method of construction of numerical schemes based on the spectral analysis of errors. The book begins with a chapter devoted to the history of the study of wave propagation. Modelling of the propagation of elastodynamic waves in continua, for dimensions \(2\) and \(3\), is considered in chapter~2. The third chapter concerns the discretization of equations of elastodynamic wave propagation. It turns out, that using Taylor schemes (even high-order schemes) to approximate the derivatives, the precision does not improve significantly. Therefore, some other schemes of approximation are developed in the next chapter. Three approximations of derivative operators are studied: first, the one given by Taylor expansion, then an approximation introduced by \textit{O. Holberg}, and another, called optimal approximation, obtained by improving Holberg's method. The analysis of errors and comparison of the results are given. These methods are used and compared in the approximation of Ricker source. The methods developed so far are used to rise the order in space of numerical schemes. As the propagation equations are the main object of study, the fifth chapter concerns with schemes of high-order in time. Chapter~6 contains the study of stability and dispersion. Several appendices provide approximations, in the sense of Taylor, of derivatives of order \(2N\), successive derivatives of Ricker sources, a FORTRAN program for the computation of optimal coefficients of derivatives, and stability constants for optimal operators. The last appendix is devoted to the background material needed in the study of wave propagation.