The End of Error: Unum Computing (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science)
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (506 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073FNVT3V |
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| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Concerned small-D democrat said This book is revolutionary. This book is revolutionary. That is the only way to describe it. I have been a professional computer science researcher for almost This book is revolutionary Concerned small-D democrat This book is revolutionary. That is the only way to describe it. I have been a professional computer science researcher for almost 40 years, and only once or twice before have I seen a book that is destined to make such a profound change in the way we think about computation. It is hard to imagine that after 70 years or so of computer arithmetic that there is anything new to say about it, but this book reinvents the subject from the ground up, from the very notion of finite precision numbers to their bit-level r. 0 years, and only once or twice before have I seen a book that is destined to make such a profound change in the way we think about computation. It is hard to imagine that after 70 years or so of computer arithmetic that there is anything new to say about it, but this book reinvents the subject from the ground up, from the very notion of finite precision numbers to their bit-level r. "Amazing! A brilliant technical work and a "page turner" in the same book" according to Paul M Sweazey. Sure there will be naysayers, but 10 years from now we will look back to floating point as if it represented the dark ages. Structural engineering, Cosmology, and even high school calculus will be distinctly improved, startups will be born, and future generations will find that science and math are less baffling and more honest than today.I bought this book because of my slight hope that it would show me an improved floating point variant. Instead I discovered a fundamental breakthrough. Gordon Bell says that th. Revolutionary new concepts, a must read in a world of automation. Amazon Customer Review: The End of Error: Unum Computing by John L. GustafsonEmeritus Professor, Lenore M. Mullin PhDDepartment of Computer ScienceUniversity at Albany, SUNYScientist, and ConsultantI have spent my entire 35+ year career studying, programming (applications and systems) teaching, and researching scientific computing: algorithms, software, languages, hardware, design and verification). I have also worked and published with computer engineers, computer scientists and mathematicians. In addition, I have studied peda
These changes are not just marginal technical improvements. The book is exceptionally well written and produced and is illustrated on every page with full-color diagrams that perfectly communicate the material. Unum arithmetic is an extension of floating point in which it is also possible to represent the open intervals between two floating point numbers. The book covers various operations with unum arithmetic and topics like polynomial evaluation, solving equations, two-body problem, etc. It is hard to believe that a single person could develop so many nice ideas and put them together into a sketch of what perhaps might be the future of computing. Reading this book is fascinating."Ulrich Kulisch, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. The appendices give a glossary of unum functions, ubox functions, and some algorithm listings."Zentralblatt MATH 1320"This book is an extraordinary reinvention of computer arithmetic and elementary numerical methods from the ground
The author makes the mathematics interesting through numerous analogies. He clearly defines jargon and uses color-coded boxes for mathematical formulas, computer code, important descriptions, and exercises.. The Future of Numerical ComputingWritten by one of the foremost experts in high-performance computing and the inventor of Gustafson’s Law, The End of Error: Unum Computing explains a new approach to computer arithmetic: the universal number (unum). It illustrates how this novel approach can solve problems that have vexed engineers and scientists for decades, including problems that have been historically limited to serial processing.Suitable for Anyone Using Computers for CalculationsThe book is accessible to anyone who uses computers for technical calculations, with much of the book only requiring high school math. This new number type obtains more accurate answers tha
A pioneer in high-performance computing, he introduced cluster computing in 1985 and first demonstrated scalable massively parallel performance on real applications in 1988. Find more details on his website.. He is also a recipient of the IEEE Computer Society’s Golden Core Award. John L. This became known as Gustafson’s Law, for which he won the inaugural ACM Gordon Bell Prize. Gustafson