Numerical Recipes Source Code CD-ROM 3rd Edition: The Art of Scientific Computing [CD-ROM]

William H. Press (Author), Saul A. Teukolsky (Author), William T. Vetterling (Author), Brian P. Flannery (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0521706858 | ISBN-13: 978-0521706858 | Publication Date: September 10, 2007 | Edition: 3

The Numerical Recipes Third Edition Code CDROM contains the complete source code in C++ for Numerical Recipes Third Edition, with many completely new routines, plus source code from Numerical Recipes Second Edition in C, Fortran 77, and Fortran 90 and Numerical Recipes First Edition in Pascal and BASIC, and more. Compatible with all computers and operating systems, the CDROM includes a Personal Single-User License that allows an individual to use the copyrighted code on any number of computers (no more than one at a time). More general licenses are available, as well as more information about the CDROM and the book -- including a fully electronic online version. Please visit www.nr.com or www.cambridge.org/us/numericalrecipes for more details. More information concerning licenses is available at: www.nr.com/licenses The Readers' Forum, for bug reports and other information on using Numerical Recipes: http://www.nr.com/forum/

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"This monumental and classic work is beautifully produced and of literary as well as mathematical quality. It is an essential component of any serious scientific or engineering library."
Computing Reviews

"... an instant 'classic,' a book that should be purchased and read by anyone who uses numerical methods ..."
American Journal of Physics

"... replete with the standard spectrum of mathematically pretreated and coded/numerical routines for linear equations, matrices and arrays, curves, splines, polynomials, functions, roots, series, integrals, eigenvectors, FFT and other transforms, distributions, statistics, and on to ODE's and PDE's ... delightful."
Physics in Canada

"... if you were to have only a single book on numerical methods, this is the one I would recommend."
IEEE Computational Science & Engineering

"This encyclopedic book should be read (or at least owned) not only by those who must roll their own numerical methods, but by all who must use prepackaged programs."
New Scientist

"These books are a must for anyone doing scientific computing."
Journal of the American Chemical Society

"The authors are to be congratulated for providing the scientific community with a valuable resource."
The Scientist

"I think this is an incredibly valuable book for both learning and reference and I recommend it for any scientists or student in a numerate discipline who need to understand and/or program numerical algorithms."
International Association for Pattern Recognition

"The attractive style of the text and the availability of the codes ensured the popularity of the previous editions and also recommended this recent volume to different categories of readers, more or less experienced in numerical computation."
Octavian Pastravanu, Zentralblatt MATH

Book Description

This CDROM contains the complete source code in C++ for Numerical Recipes Third Edition, plus source code from earlier editions in C, Fortran 77, Fortran 90, Pascal, and BASIC. Compatible with all computers and operating systems, the CDROM includes a Personal Single-User License.

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Product Details

• CD-ROM: 1235 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 3 edition (September 10, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521706858
• ISBN-13: 978-0521706858
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.6 x 7.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #231,719 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars DISAPPOINTED WITH SEQUENTIAL CODE, October 4, 2007

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Peter J. Stan "Live Oak Capital Partners, LP" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Numerical Recipes Source Code CD-ROM 3rd Edition: The Art of Scientific Computing (CD-ROM)

My rating reflects dissatisfaction with the concept of v3.0, rather than with how it's been implemented. Given past experience, I'm sure the implementation is just fine.

I've been very happily using the parallel version of the v2.10 NR algorithms in Fortran 9x for the past year or more. My work needs the extra oomph of multiple processors, and the algorithms are all that they're supposed to be. You can imagine my astonishment to discover that v3.0 is sequential C++ code. The authors made a big deal about parallel Fortran being the future of scientific computing in the preface of their Second Edition. Now all it merits is a bowdlerization of Shakespeare in a footnote on p. xi. Indeed, "what a falling off was there!"

NR/v3.0 cuts off at least a portion of its high-end users, and that ain't progress. Had I realized this was going to happen, I would never have upgraded. As it is, I'm stuck with the Fortran 90 legacy portion of the CD. This might not be so bad if this code were supported, but it's not.

I strongly urge the authors to move to a parallel version of their new code and to support the Fortran code at least in the interim. The electronic text could provide a medium for so doing.

My displeasure obviously extends to the text, the production of which is superb, by the way.