[bionet.software.contrib] Where can a poor, dumb mol. biologist learn some math?

SHAPIRO.BLUME@BIONET-20.BIO.NET (John Blume) (10/26/88)

I am trying to learn something about scientific computer
programming.  Can anyone suggest a book or set of books that
would be worth reading in order to pick up some of the
fundamentals of the necessary math involved in most biological
computer applications?

I am also interested in comments from anyone concerning what
might be a good language to work in.  I'm learning "C" now, like
half of the world, but would like to know people's opinion of
C's viability as a hard-core scientific language.

John Blume				shapiro.blume@bionet-20.bio.net
Department of Biochemistry		blume@b.scs.uiuc.edu
University of Illinois			jebg0430@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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MAULIK@BIONET-20.BIO.NET (Sunil Maulik) (10/26/88)

...my favorite comment about C as a programming language:

"C has all the power of assembly language...with all the flexibility
of assembly language"

-sm-
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