hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer) (09/18/86)
NUMERICAL RECIPES: The art of Scientific Computing by W. H. Press, B. P. Flannery, S. A. Teukolsky, and W. T. Vetterling (1986) Cambridge Univ. Press IBSN 0 521 30811 9 is a cross between a numerical analysis textbook and a compilation of source (FORTRAN 77, and Pascal translated from the FORTRAN) for numerical algorithms - many of which are beyond the limits of the usual undergraduate numerical analysis course. The scope if this book is "everything up to, but not including, partial differential equations", plus a start on p.d.e.'s. The source is available on diskettes for a number of formats, and licenses are available (from Numerical Recipes Software, PO Box 243, Cambridge, MA 02238) for minicomputers and mainframes - they consider this to be competitive with NAG and IMSL. The Chapters are: 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 9. Root Finding and Nonlinear Sets of Equations 10. Minimization or Maximization of Functions 11. Eigensystems 12. Fourier Transform Spectral Methods 13. Statistical Description of Data 14. Modeling of Data 15. Integration of Ordinary Differential Equations 16. Two Point Boundary Value Problems 17. Partial Differential Equations. --henry schaffer