Numerical Recipes 3rd Edition: The Art of Scientific Computing

This legendary textbook in its 3rd Edition, takes as into a low flight over the land of almost all scientific algorithms. By using plain C++ one can really master the knowledge that our species managed to formulate into applied and workable computer techniques. Every scientific domain that has already been translated into the language of the well known and understood mathematical methods, in this book will find its perfectly built in C++ computable counterpart. John Piliounis, Physicist, MSc. Electronics Engineering

One of the best books of numerical methods. Amazing having it).Some paragraphs were added comparing with the second edition. Like it.

Would be 5 stars for an interesting and useful product ... but some of the pages were quite badly creased (not enough damage to warrant a return - still readable) so I took one off.

must have foundation

If you are only interested in computer code, you can find more useful code on the internet, but if you want crystal clear explanations of general concepts of numerical computing, this book has no equals.

If you are serious about computers this is a must have. It is well written and gets down and dirty with maths functions. Does what is says on the cover. I bought it for the section on FFTs but have already noted sections for future projects.

I am an old user of Numerical Recipes and, in particular, of the C version (2nd edition). This third edition has for sure expanded its scope (and this is good). However, far too much is not self-contained, and depends on external material in electronic form. We are in the Internet era, but this does not mean a book should not *fully* stand up by itself!

You can't use the algorithms inside without paying a license fee