References

  • [Sauer] Numerical Analysis by Timothy Sauer, 2nd or 3rd edition.

  • [Burden&Faires] Numerical Analysis by Richard L. Burden and J. Douglas Faires, 9th edition.

  • [Chenney&Kincaid] Numerical Mathematics and Computing by Ward Chenney and David Kincaid.

  • SciPy Lecture Notes; a free reference mainly on the SciPy package, but also with some general information on using Python for scientific computing. It is available both as a web-site or downloadable as PDF or HTML — for off-line access, I prefer the HTML version rather than the PDF.

These will often be cited by [nickname in brackets].