A classic in the understanding of finite elements, updated to include examples, codes and exercises to connect theory to application.

Introduction to the second edition; Foreword to the 1997 edition; Preface; Part I: 1. An introduction to the theory; A summary of the theory; 3. Approximation; 4. Variational crimes, 5. Stability; 6. Eigenvalue problems; 7. Initial-value problems; 8. Singularities; Bibliography; Index of notations; Index; Part II: 9. Finite elements in one dimension; 10. The finite element method in 2D and 3D; 11. Errors in projections and eigenvalues; 12. Mixed finite elements: velocity and pressure; Appendix A. Discontinuous Galerkin methods; Appendix B. Fast Poisson solvers; Index for chapters 9-12 and appendices A and B.

Gilbert Strang received his Ph.D. from UCLA and since then he has taught at MIT. He has been a Sloan Fellow and a Fairchild Scholar and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Professor of Mathematics at MIT and an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College. Professor Strang has published eight textbooks. He received the von Neumann Medal of the US Association for Computational Mechanics, and the Henrici Prize for applied analysis. The first Su Buchin Prize from the International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the Haimo Prize from the Mathematical Association of America, were awarded for his contributions to teaching around the world.