Reading List

Mike Vanier (Caltech), Scalable computer programming languages
Harry Cheng (UC Davis), Ten Reasons to Teach and Learn Computer Programming in C
Robert Morrison (New York University), Lecture system in teaching science
Top 10 Algorithms of the 20th Century
Franz Vesely (University of Vienna), What is Computational Physics?
Nicholas J Higham (University of Manchestera, UK), How and How Not to Sum Floating Point Numbers
Pierre L'Ecuyer (University of Montreal), Random Number Generation, (Chapter 4 of the Handbook on Simulation, Jerry Banks Ed., Wiley, 1998, 93--137; postscript document). [an error occurred while processing this directive] Local copy of the chapter: pdf [[an error occurred while processing this directive]], posted online on [an error occurred while processing this directive]
Werner Krauth (École Normale Supérieure), Introduction to Monte Carlo algorithms , Cluster Monte Carlo algorithms
Jonathan Richard Shewchuk (UC Berkeley), An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method Without the Agonizing Pain
Leslie Greengard (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU), A Short Course on Fast Multipole Methods

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