This 160-pages-small booklet deals with solving numerical analysis problems in engineering. It emphasizes the importance of using a software system for the practical solution of these problems and gives some example programs in FORTRAN 77 using the NAG library. There are short hints for the work with the NAG routines, very short introductions into the basic numerical analysis problems and a lot of examples and case studies. The latter ones elucidate the different aspects of numerical algorithms and application problems like stability, ill-conditioning or the influence of parameters to the solution of a problem or the behaviour of an algorithm.
Reviewer: N.Köckler