taming unruly computational problems from mathematical physics to science fiction /
Paul J. Nahin
Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
c2011
1 online resource (xxvi, 376 p.) :
ill., facsim
"A collection of challenging problems in mathematical physics that roar like lions when attacked analytically, but which purr like kittens when confronted by a high-speed electronic computer and its powerful scientific software (plus some speculations for the future from science fiction)."