September 2024
Intermediate to advanced
501 pages
17h 6m
English
This chapter covers different aspects of integration, focusing on numerical integration. For historical reasons, numerical integration is also known as quadrature. Integration is significantly more complex than its inverse operation—differentiation—and while many examples of integrals can be calculated analytically, in general, we must resort to numerical methods. Depending on the properties of the integrand (the function being integrated) and the integration limits, it can be easy or difficult to compute an integral numerically. ...