section_path: Areas of mathematics/Computational mathematics
section_name: Computational mathematics
paragraph_text: Computational mathematics
  
  Computational mathematics is the study of mathematical problems that are typically too large for human, numerical capacity. Numerical analysis studies methods for problems in analysis using functional analysis and approximation theory; numerical analysis broadly includes the study of approximation and discretization with special focus on rounding errors. Numerical analysis and, more broadly, scientific computing also study non-analytic topics of mathematical science, especially algorithmic- matrix -and- graph theory. Other areas of computational mathematics include computer algebra and symbolic computation.