Introduction to Fortran 95 and Numerical Computing

This book provides an introduction to its latest standard: Fortran 95, the most important language for scientific and engineering computation.

Contents: a quick tour of fortran 95; the building blocks of a fortran application; flow control; computer arithmetic; applications; intrinsic functions; input and output; arrays; more on procedures; parametrized intrinsic types; derived types; pointers and targets; elements of object-oriented programming; code performance; linear systems of algebraic equations; linear least squares; nonlinear equations; polynomial interpolation; numerical integration; splines; Taylor polynomials.