Numerical recipes in C: the art of scientific computing
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From the Publisher: This is the revised and greatly expanded Second Edition of the hugely popular Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing. 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 (now well over 300 in all), plus upgraded versions of many of the original routines, this book is more than ever the most practical, comprehensive handbook of scientific computing available today. The book retains the informal, easy-to-read style that made the first edition so popular, with many new topics presented at the same accessible level. In addition, some sections of more advanced material have been introduced, set off in small type from the main body of the text. Numerical Recipes is an ideal textbook for scientists and engineers and an indispensable reference for anyone who works in scientific computing. Highlights of the new material include a new chapter on integral equations and inverse methods; multigrid methods for solving partial differential equations; improved random number routines; wavelet transforms; the statistical bootstrap method; a new chapter on less-numerical algorithms including compression coding and arbitrary precision arithmetic; band diagonal linear systems; linear…
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The incomplete gamma function is based on an approximation formula whose origin is described in the Handbook of Applied Mathematical Functions [1] and in the Numerical Recipes in C book [6].
“The incomplete gamma function is based on an approximation formula whose origin is described in the Handbook of Applied Mathematical Functions [1] and in the Numerical Recipes in C book [6].”
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- Authors
- Press, W. H., Flannery, B. P., Teukolsky, S. A., & Vetterling, W. T.
- Venue
- Choice Reviews Online
- Publisher
- American Library Association
- Published
- 1993-06-01
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 30-5638-30-5638
- ISSN
- 0009-4978 (ISSN-L)
- 1523-8253
- OpenAlex
- W2432517183
- Cited by
- 17,933
- References
- 4
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- Type
- book review
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- infoscience.epfl.ch
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- Locations
- Choice Reviews Online (publishedVersion)
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Modeling and Simulation › Mathematical and Computational Methods
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Applied Mathematics › Mathematical functions and polynomials
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Matrix Theory and Algorithms
- Keywords
- numerical analysis, scientific computing, C programming, numerical algorithms, integral equations, inverse method, multigrid methods, partial differential equations, random number generation, wavelet transform, bootstrapping, sparse matrices, linear algebra, Cholesky decomposition, QR decomposition, numerical differentiation, Padé approximants, rational Chebyshev approximation, special functions, Monte Carlo integration, nonlinear solvers, fast Fourier transform, spectral analysis, Savitzky-Golay filter, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, arbitrary-precision arithmetic
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