# Errata Understanding and Implementing the Finite Element Method Mark S. Gockenbach (SIAM 2006)

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1. Page 90, Line -1: The integral on the right-hand side is missing a factor of . The equation should read

2. Page 167, Algorithm 7.1:
• Line 10: T.Edges(eptr(2,2)) should be T.Edges(eptr(2),2)
• Line 12: T.Edges(eptr(2,1)) should be T.Edges(eptr(2),1)
3. Page 172, Algorithm 7.5:
• Line 10: nonzero should be negative
4. Page 225, Chapter 10: This chapter fails to give any suggestions for further reading about direct methods for sparse systems. An up-to-date treatment that just appeared is Direct Methods for Sparse Linear Systems by Timothy A. Davis (SIAM, 2006).
5. Page 334, Section 15.2: The explicit residual indicator described in this section is due to Ainsworth and Oden (see Section 2.2 of A Posteriori Error Estimation in Finite Element Analysis by Mark Ainsworth and J. Tinsley Oden, reference [2] in the bibliography). The citation was inadvertently omitted.
6. Page 338, Line -4: three-point element residual estimator'' should be explicit residual estimator.''