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Numerical Recipes in C The Art of Scientific Computing

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ISBN-10: 0521431085

ISBN-13: 9780521431088

Edition: 2nd 1992 (Revised)

Authors: William H. Press, Saul A. Teukolsky, William T. Vetterling, Brian P. Flannery

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The product of a unique collaboration among four leading scientists in academic research and industry, Numerical Recipes is a complete text and reference book on scientific computing. In a self-contained manner it proceeds from mathematical and theoretical considerations to actual practical computer routines. With over 100 new routines bringing the total to well over 300, plus upgraded versions of the original routines, the new edition remains the most practical, comprehensive handbook of scientific computing available today.
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Book details

List price: $78.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/30/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 1020
Size: 6.75" wide x 10.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 3.278
Language: English

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.

Legal matters
List of computer programs
Preliminaries
Solution of linear algebraic equations
Interpolation and extrapolation
Integration of functions
Evaluation of functions
Special functions
Random numbers
Sorting
Root finding and nonlinear sets of equations
Minimization or maximization of functions
Eigensystems
Fast Fourier transform
Fourier and spectral applications
Statistical description of data
Modeling of data
Integration of ordinary differential equations
Two point boundary value problems
Integral equations and inverse theory
Partial differential equations
Less-numerical algorithms
References
Index of programs and dependencies
General index