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The Delicate Art of Brute Force: How to Compute It When You Can’t Solve It by Paul J. Nahin
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Overview: Using everyday computational power to tackle complex—and seemingly unsolvable—math problems. Confronted by a math problem of seemingly impenetrable difficulty, what can you do? In The Delicate Art of Brute Force, Paul Nahin shows how even if you can’t solve such a problem, you can still get an answer. The computational power of your own computer—the desktop in your home office, the laptop on your coffee table—can be deployed to overwhelm a problem’s complexity through a massive number-crunching assault. Nahin presents a series of apparently intractable math problems and shows the thought process that allows computational solution. Most of the problems are not abstract constructions but originate in the real world—one chapter is titled “How Wi-Fi Coverage and Anti-Submarine Warfare Are the Same.” For each one, Nahin compares computational and analytical approaches, demonstrating how well the computer solutions agree with theory. As a bonus, sometimes the computational solution is better, giving more insight or greater flexibility. All the codes created in support of this book have been written in MATLAB, a widely used scientific programming language popular among not only engineers but also many physicists and mathematicians.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Tech & Devices
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