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Preface ix Supplementarymaterials All programanddatafiles referred to in this bookare available fromthebook’sprimarywebsite: http://hplgit.github.io/prog4comp/. Acknowledgments First of all, we want to thank all students who attended the coursesFM1006Modellingandsimulationofdynamicsystems,FM1115Scientific Computing,FB1012Mathematics I andFB2112Physics at theUniversityCollege ofSoutheastNorwayover the last coupleofyears. Theyworked theirway through earlyversionsof this textandgaveusconstructiveandpositivefeedbackthathelped uscorrecterrorsand improvethebookinsomanyways. Special acknowledgement goes toGuandongKou and EdirisingheV. P. J.Manjula for their careful reading of themanuscriptandconstructivesuggestions for improvement.Thecarefulproof readingbyYapiDonatienAchou is alsohighlyappreciated.We thankall ourgood colleagues at theUniversityCollegeofSoutheastNorway,UniversityofOslo, and SimulaResearchLaboratory for their continued support and interest, enlightening discussions, and for providingsuch an inspiring environment for teaching and sci- ence. In particular, Svein Linge is thankful toMarius Lysaker for their fruitful collaboration on introducing programming as an integral part ofmathematics and physics bachelor courses at theUniversityCollege of Southeast Norway. Finally, theauthorsmust thanktheSpringer teamwithDr.MartinPeters,Thanh-HaLeThi, andYvonneSchlatter for theeffectiveeditorial andproductionprocess. The textwaswritten in theDocOnce1 [12]markup language,which allowedus toworkwithasingle text source forboth thePythonand theMatlabversionof this book,and toproducevariouselectronicversionsof thebook. December2015 SveinLingeandHansPetterLangtangen 1https://github.com/hplgit/doconce