[petsc-users] A book advice on numerical computation errors

[Jed Brown]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:19, Umut Tabak <u.tabak at tudelft.nl> wrote:

> I would like to ask for a reference book on numerical errors in
> computations and ways to tackle with them, such as decreasing round of
> error, cancellation error and so on, probably with some programming
> examples? Are there any good references on this topic?


This book has a good section devoted to numerical stability:

http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/text.html

This book is comprehensive:

http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~higham/asna/
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