Modern Computer Arithmetic
Published on 25. November 2010
Book
Hardback
236 pages
978-0-521-19469-3 (ISBN)
Description
Modern Computer Arithmetic focuses on arbitrary-precision algorithms for efficiently performing arithmetic operations such as addition, multiplication and division, and their connections to topics such as modular arithmetic, greatest common divisors, the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), and the computation of elementary and special functions. Brent and Zimmermann present algorithms that are ready to implement in your favourite language, while keeping a high-level description and avoiding too low-level or machine-dependent details. The book is intended for anyone interested in the design and implementation of efficient high-precision algorithms for computer arithmetic, and more generally efficient multiple-precision numerical algorithms. It may also be used in a graduate course in mathematics or computer science, for which exercises are included. These vary considerably in difficulty, from easy to small research projects, and expand on topics discussed in the text. Solutions to selected exercises are available from the authors.
Reviews / Votes
'Very few books do justice to material that is suitable for both professional software engineers and graduate students. This book does just that, without losing its focus or stressing one audience over the other. As the authors make clear, this book is about algorithms for arithmetic (and not hardware considerations and implementations); this focus allows them to cover integer arithmetic, modular arithmetic, and floating-point arithmetic broadly and in detail. the notes and references at the end of each chapter guide readers to more details, and provide a historical backdrop for each major topic.' Marlin Thomas, Reviews.comMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 15 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
504 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-19469-3 (9780521194693)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Richard P. Brent | Paul Zimmermann
Modern Computer Arithmetic
E-Book
01/2011
1st Edition
Cambridge University Press
€91.99
Available for download
Persons
Richard Brent is a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Australian National University, Canberra. Paul Zimmermann is a researcher at the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA).
Content
Preface; Acknowledgements; Notation; 1. Integer arithmetic; 2. Modular arithmetic and the FFT; 3. Floating-point arithmetic; 4. Newton's method and function evaluation; Appendix. Implementations and pointers; Bibliography; Index.