Practical Scientific Computing

Acknowledgements

Ali would like to thank his wife Samira, son Danish and daughter Amna for their encouragement and patience while he ignored them for days at a time. He would also like to thank his parents Abdul Sattar and Zohra Sattar for their efforts in raising him with the desire to learn and to propagate knowledge.

Victor would like to express deepest gratitude to his parents Ludmila and Evgeniy Zalizniak for their patience and sacrifices in raising him and for their encouragement to learn.

Finally, we would like to thank the team at Horwood and Woodhead Publishing for their efforts in making this book a reality.