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In Its Origins, C Is A Language For Systems Programming, No For Numerical Work. In The Text We Will Discuss Some Of The Language's Deficiencies, And How To Work Around Them. In This Book, We Want To Set A Consistent And Clear Standard For Scientific Computing In C. The Language Is Sufficiently Powerful That There Are Often Multiple Ways To Code A Single Idea. We Talked To Both Numericists And C Gurus Before Making The Choices That Are Exemplified In This Book. If Reader Complaints Are Equally Divided Between C Stylists Who Find Our Code Too Literal-minded, And Applications-oriented Users Who Find Our Code Too Terse Or Its Data Structures Too Obscure, Then We Will Have Struck The Right Balance. Preliminaries -- Solution Of Linear Algebraic Equations -- Interpolation And Extrapolation -- Integration Of Functions -- Evaluation Of Functions -- Special Functions -- Random Numbers -- Sorting -- Root Finding And Nonlinear Sets Of Equations -- Minimization Or Maximization Of Functions -- Eigensystems -- Fourier Transform Spectral Methods -- Statistical Description Of Data -- Modeling Of Data -- Integration Of Ordinary Differential Equations -- Two Point Boundary Value Problems -- Partial D

Author
William H. Press, Brian P. Flannery, Saul A. Teukolsky, William T. Vetterling
Publisher
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York: Cambridge University Press
Published
1988
Language
EN
ISBN
9780521354677
Subjects
Computer Science, Reference
Rating
4.14 / 5 (188 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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