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- Provides an introduction to approximation techniques with applications to modern problems in astronomy and physics
- Introduces topics illustrating common principles in physics and astronomy, some discussed with modern numerical approaches including CPU-GPU computing
- Equips students with mathematical physics and computational skills needed to purse advanced topics
- Can be used as starting point for a one or two-semester course on mathematical physics or astronomy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics (ULNP)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Preliminaries
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Front Matter
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Selected Topics
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This textbook provides students with a solid introduction to the techniques of approximation commonly used in data analysis across physics and astronomy. The choice of methods included is based on their usefulness and educational value, their applicability to a broad range of problems and their utility in highlighting key mathematical concepts. Modern astronomy reveals an evolving universe rife with transient sources, mostly discovered - few predicted - in multi-wavelength observations. Our window of observations now includes electromagnetic radiation, gravitational waves and neutrinos. For the practicing astronomer, these are highly interdisciplinary developments that pose a novel challenge to be well-versed in astroparticle physics and data-analysis.
The book is organized to be largely self-contained, starting from basic concepts and techniques in the formulation of problems and methods of approximation commonly used in computation and numerical analysis. This includes root finding, integration, signal detection algorithms involving the Fourier transform and examples of numerical integration of ordinary differential equations and some illustrative aspects of modern computational implementation. Some of the topics highlighted introduce the reader to selected problems with comments on numerical methods and implementation on modern platforms including CPU-GPU computing.
Developed from lectures on mathematical physics in astronomy to advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students, this book will be a valuable guide for students and a useful reference for practicing researchers. To aid understanding, exercises are included at the end of each chapter. Furthermore, some of the exercises are tailored to introduce modern symbolic computation.
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Physics, Sejong University , Seoul, Korea (Republic of)
Maurice H. P. M. van Putten
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Introduction to Methods of Approximation in Physics and Astronomy
Authors: Maurice H. P. M. van Putten
Series Title: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2932-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-2931-8Published: 18 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9742-3Published: 29 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-2932-5Published: 07 April 2017
Series ISSN: 2192-4791
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4805
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 345
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 71 illustrations in colour
Topics: Mathematical Methods in Physics, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation, Astrophysics and Astroparticles