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This book presents the full range of computational science and engineering -- the equations, numerical methods, and algorithms with MATLAB® codes. The author has taught this material to thousands of engineers and scientists. The book is solution-based and not formula-based: it covers applied linear algebra and fast solvers, differential equations with finite differences and finite elements, Fourier analysis, optimization, and more.  Contents Chapter 1: Applied Linear Algebra; Chapter 2: A Framework for Applied Mathematics; Chapter 3: Boundary Value Problems; Chapter 4: Fourier Series and Integrals; Chapter 5: Analytic Functions; Chapter 6: Initial Value Problems; Chapter 7: Solving Large Systems; Chapter 8: Optimization and Minimum Principles. I have long been a champion of Strang's books. I have reviewed different editions of two texts on linear algebra, making clear that that I think he is the most influential author in linear algebra in the last 50 years. I have heaped high praise on his calculus text in my recent editorial on calculus [Cargal 2008]. I have done this for the exact reason that I have championed John Stillwell's books on geometry and algebra. These two authors, as well as a handful of others, write with authority leavened with the great enthusiasm of the born teacher. They are superb pedagogues.