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William H. Press

Autore di Numerical Recipes in C

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Comprende i nomi: W. H. Press, Press William H.

Fonte dell'immagine: William H. Press in 1980 [credit: A.T. Service]

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Numerical Recipes in C (1988) 629 copie

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This is a must-read compendium of frequently visited numerical methods in scientific computing. It provides intuition, comparison and expansion for each method, but miraculously finishes them in a couple of pages.

Perhaps the only caveat is the freshness of these recipes: it considers knowledge before 2007, reaching as late as SVM. But needless to say, the existing contents have proven their usefulness against time.
 
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Wei_Guo | 1 altra recensione | Jul 3, 2023 |
This book saved my life so many times during my professional life that I long ago lost count. This is the original book, and all the examples are in FORTRAN, with the PASCAL translations as an appendix in the back. At the time it was published, you could send away for a floppy disk to get either set of code. When a later version with examples in C was published, I rushed to get the floppy disk of that as well.

Pity that Library Thing (and apparently Library of Congress) insists that there can be only one primary author; there were four.

There still has not been a book to equal this one, although Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schnieir is equally brilliant in that field. Math is good.
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Lyndatrue | 1 altra recensione | Jan 9, 2014 |
Book Description

ISBN-10: 052143064X | ISBN-13: 978-0521430647 |
Publication Date: September 25, 1992 | Edition: 2

This is the greatly 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 bringing the total to well over 300, plus upgraded versions of the original routines, this new edition remains the most practical, comprehensive handbook of scientific computing available today. Highlights of the new material include: -A new chapter on integral equations and inverse methods -Multigrid and other 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. The book retains the informal easy-to-read style that made the first edition so popular, while introducing some more advanced topics. It is an ideal textbook for scientists and engineers and an indispensable reference for anyone who works in scientific computing. The Second Edition is availabe in FORTRAN, the traditional language for numerical calculations and in the increasingly popular C language.

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"This is a phenomenal effort. Virtualy anyone involved in scientific computing, from engineers, to physicists, to social scientists, will find information and methods applicable to their specific needs, or helpful subroutines that can be inserted into the reader's existing programs....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

"Anyone who writes (or is curious about) computer codes to solve many of the common numerical problems in science and engineering will want to own this large book. The writing is authoritative (two of the authors have published first-rate research in writing code for astrophysics problems), but never dull. Flashes of humor appear at regular intervals, in the appropriate places, and as hard as it may be to believe, this book is interesting even as casual reading! I recommend this book highly, and both the authors and the publisher are to be commended for an outstanding piece of work." Paul J. Nahin, Science Books and Films

"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." Mike Holderness, New Scientist

This book is excellent for students wanting a good reference for quick and dirty types of analyses or scientific computing. Professional programmers, scientists, engineers, specialists or analysts performing software development for laboratory or scientific research would be well advised to reference this title, but ultimately they will likely need to rely other resources if they require efficient and/or unrestricted (public-domain) source codes for their work.
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JJMAlmeida | Jan 5, 2012 |

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