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Numerical Recipes in C: The Art of Scientific Computing, Second Edition 2nd Edition

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

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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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0521431085
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978-0521431088
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Cambridge University Press
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October 30, 1992
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English
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"...an instant `classic,' a book that should be purchased and read by anyone who uses numerical methods..." American Journal of Physics

"No matter what language you program in, these packages are classics, both as a textbook or reference. They are an essential and valuable addition to the academic, professional, or personal library." Internet

"The new book exceeds, if possible, the excellence of its predecessor: it is about 50 percent longer and has been thoroughly updated...The bibliographical material has been considerably extended and updated...For new users, it is sufficient to say that practically every aspect of numerical analysis is covered...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." A. D. Booth, Computing Reviews

"If you already have the first edition, will you want or need the second? The answer is a definitive yes...a book that should be on your desk (not your shelf) if you have any interest in the analysis of data or the formulation of models." Lyle W. Konigsberg, Human Biology

"...the second [edition] expands the scope of coverage and continues the standard of excellence achieved in the first. If you were to have only a single book on numerical methods, this is the one I would recommend." Edmund Miller, IEEE Computational Science & Engineering

"...remarkably complete...it contains many more routines than many commercial mathematics packages..." Byte

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

"...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...such an education...is delightful..." Physics in Canada

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This is the revised and expanded second edition of the hugely popular Numerical Recipes: the Art of Scientific Computing.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press; 2nd edition (October 30, 1992)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 994 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0521431085
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521431088
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.34 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 1.5 x 10 inches

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William H. Press is a professor in computer science and integrative biology at the University of Texas at Austin. Before moving to Texas, he was for five years deputy director of Los Alamos National Laboratory; and before that, for twenty years, professor of astronomy and physics at Harvard University. Press is co-author of the Numerical Recipes books on scientific computing, with more than half a million copies in print. He has been a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in two White House administrations and is a past president of the American Association for Advancement of Science. He currently serves on the council of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Jason Enochs

Beautiful Book

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2024

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This is a beautiful hardcover book. I would prefer if it did not have a dust cover. I also have this book in C++ and that book has no dust cover. The title and other information is displayed directly on the book's cover instead of on a dust cover. The dust cover makes this large book easy to drop because it wants to slip out of the cover. I would never deduct a star for something this trivial. This book makes me wish that I could somehow give it an extra 6th star.
I own over a thousand dollars worth of programming books and none of them are finer than this one. I started my collection with my college books and then I went crazy buying books. I was thinking about opening a software business but I never did. The books were going to be used by all of my employees. Now that I'm retired, I have a lot of free time to read all of these books. I've only read about half of them so far. My books cover an insane number of programming languages but I have decided to focus my energy and time on C/C++, C# and Julia.
This book reminds me of the programming/math books written by Knuth because the math looks pretty high-level. I have not read this book yet so I may come back and update this review when I'm done. I can't give it more than these 5 stars but maybe I will discover something useful to know before others purchase this book. I just received it and took it out of the box....I was stunned by how nice the book is. Top quality from cover to cover. I can't wait to read it but I won't be back to C until I finish my C++ books (a few months).

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wiredweird

A classic, and still worth having

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2006

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"Numerical Recipes" has been a staple in computing libraries for many years, and for good reason. It provides immediately usable implementations of all the workhorses of numerical computation, in production-quality form. Maybe there are better implementations out there, FFTW for example, but getting something to work correctly always comes before getting it to work fast. Numerical computation is a specialty, and vanishingly few of us are specialists. As a result, getting this much specialist knowledge for the price of a very few hours' wage, fully debugged and documented, is a great bargain.

I have to agree with the critics who point out that the Gnu Scientific Library (GSL) is more complete in some areas, and offers better licensing terms. This collection has its own strengths, though, and not just in documentation. The writeup, however, is the major interface between the software and us, the bio-ware. GSL's collection of 'man' (help) pages serves a purpose, but this book's exposition describes a lot more of the background and rationale for the routines. The code and man pages are self-evident statements of the implementation - but "what" is a very different question than "what else" or "why."

This one may not serve all needs. You'd be amazed how many it does serve, though. If you need more than a Matlab session for numerical computing, you need this.

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S. Masry

Good Transaction

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2019

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Good Transaction. I was expecting the book to be a bit in better condition, but overall a positive experience.

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Arthur W. Anderson

Indispensible

Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2001

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I have owned several editions of this book since the late 1980s, first in Fortran, then in C. What makes it so valuable is that each algorithm is explained first, then implemented. A C++ man myself, I don't use the clunky C code in the text, but it is useful to see debugged code when you are doing something complicated, even when you are only translating it to another language.
The encyclopedic scope of the book is also welcome. I am always stumbling into an area of numerical analysis that is new to me, trying to get something to work. Time and again I have turned to this book to give me a basic education in some topic (say, optimization of functions) as well as actual code that I can work from. I know of no other source for this kind of information.
The text is well written, in a lively style. I recommend it most highly.

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This is what you want.

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2021

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Because the book actually has source code in it. If you are happy with procedural programming because you don't need a fancy GUI, then this is all you need.

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B. Kirkpatrick

Fundamental reference

Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2017

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This is a fundamental programming reference and should be on every programmer's bookshelf, especially technical and embedded programmers. There is a 3rd edition for those on an organizational budget but I bought the 2nd since it was coming out of my pocket. I had used the 2nd edition before I retired and knew it would suffice.

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jp

Great book

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2019

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Book is great and a classic. I was required to use this for work awhile ago, and just picked it up as a reference for myself recently. GSL has the latest, but this is still a great reference.

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Steve Trapp

Disappointed

Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2016

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These "numerical recipes" algorithms are copyrighted and to use them you must do so according to their license, and some functions are not even "displayed" in the book. I guess I was hoping for an algorithms book more along the lines of Donald Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" series except that it would be for "scientific/engineering" alogirthms. Fairly disappointed. I'm glad I didn't ALSO buy the brand spanking new version!!
OR, it could have been open-source. But even if it had been open-source, the code isn't that great; and I can't figure out if the people who wrote "Numerical Recipes" necessarily are the top of the field in "scientific/engineering" algorithms or not.

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David Leng

As Adrian Gurvitz once said, "Classic"

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 16, 2019

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I've used this book in one form or another since God was a lad. Had to buy it again 'cos my last copy clearly decided to leave home and find its way in the world. I make use of something from this gem every month.

In terms of retail, the book came in excellent time and nick.

A classic, and not one for the attic.

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HJB

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 29, 2015

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Great book

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