2.1 Computer Arithmetic 2.2 Computer Processing and Algorithms 2.3 The Economics of Computation 2.4 Efficient Polynomial Evaluation 2.5 Efficient Computation of Derivatives 2.6 Direct versus Iterative Methods 2.7 Errors: The Central Problem of Numerical Mathematics 2.8 Making Infinite Sequences Finite 2.9 Methods of Approximation 2.10 Evaluating the Errors in the Final Result 2.11 Computational Complexity … Continue reading 2 Elementary Concepts