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[QUOTE="Stephen Tashi, post: 5997960, member: 186655"] You can certainly find books on "scientific computation", "numerical analysis", "finite element methods" etc. Whether they are relevant to a future career depends, of course, on whether your future involves writing scientific programs. The two basic ways to combine programming with math and science are: 1) Study how to use a general purpose programming language (e.g. C, Python, Java) to do scientific computation. 2) Study how to use special purpose languages designed for scientific and engineering calculation ( e.g. Mathematica, Maple, Maxima, PSpice) In approach 1) you implement the details yourself - and presumably learn the math and science. In approach 2) you rely on libraries other people have written to do much of the work. This is a good approach if you already understand what the libraries are doing. If you want to hear the role of computers in math extolled, checkout the opinions of Doron Zeilberger - e.g. [URL]http://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion132.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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