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and accepted, maybe for historical reasons mainly; but there has been
accumulated on differential equations a great wealth of information which
can be put to great use in the analysis of their discretization. Also, the
finite difference or finite element approximation permits greater sophisti
cation in the discretization than shear physical discrete modeling; I fol
lowed this formal discretization procedure of differential equations
throughout the book.
A complete list of references on the topics covered in this book could
fill by itself several hefty volumes, and I restricted it therefore to a mere
list of books only. As for the notation, no special typographical distinction
is made between scalars, vectors, and matrices; the reader is judged keen
enough to distinguish among them contextually.
Thanks are due to my graduate student Arthur R. Johnson who proof
read the manuscript.