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The essential text and reference for modern scientific computing now also covers computational geometry, classification and inference, and much more.
The third edition of Numerical Recipes has wider coverage than ever before, with two new chapters, and many other expanded and updated sections. The executable object-oriented C++ code for all the routines is now printed in colour for easy reading.
1. Preliminaries
2. Solution of linear algebraic equations
3. Interpolation and extrapolation
4. Integration of functions
5. Evaluation of functions
6. Special functions
7. Random numbers
8. Sorting and selection
9. Root finding and nonlinear sets of equations
10. Minimization or maximization of functions
11. Eigensystems
12. Fast Fourier transform
13. Fourier and spectral applications
14. Statistical description of data
15. Modeling of data
16. Classification and inference
17. Integration of ordinary differential equations
18. Two point boundary value problems
19. Integral equations and inverse theory
20. Partial differential equations
21. Computational geometry
22. Less-numerical algorithms
References
William H. Press holds the Raymer Chair in Computer Sciences and Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. Saul A. Teukolsky is H. A. Bethe Professor in Physics in the Radiophysics and Space Research Department of Cornell University. William Vetterling is a Research Fellow and Director of the Image Science Laboratory at ZINK Imaging, LLC in Waltham, MA. His career includes eight years on the physics faculty at Harvard and 20 years of numerical modeling and laboratory research on digital imaging at Polaroid Corporation. Brian P. Flannery is Science, Strategy and Programs Manager at Exxon Mobil Corporation.
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– American Journal of Physics
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