Numerical Recipes in Pascal (First Edition) : The Art of Scientific Computing

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Summary: routines and more routines
Review: If you ever had to program a complicated numerical algorithm, such as SVD decomposition, Bessel functions, eigensystems or Fourier transform, you will know how useful this book is. All those problems, and many others, are presented, the theory is explained and the full code of a routine, which solves it, is given. This version brings the codes in Pascal, but there are versions for FORTRAN, C++ and Basic. If you need any routine, you just have to "cut and paste" it from the book into your program.

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Summary: Collections of algorithms still needed
Review: In my work, I routinely write statistical programs which require algorithnms such as are contained in books like this. I own this book and the 1st and 2nd editions of Numerical Recipes in C. I had hoped that a 2nd edition for Pascal would be available. If publishers pay attention to the previous reviewer, I fear it will not be forthcoming. While I can not attest to the value of most of the algorithms contained in this book, those which I needed worked very well indeed and the surrounding discussions were enlightening and often witty. For those of us who need to write stand-alone programs for the great unwashed, piecing together routines from standard packages which require a knowledge of the package (and presumeably of what you are doing) is not an option. In those situations, a book such as this is indispensible.

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Summary: Collections of algorithms still needed
Review: In my work, I routinely write statistical programs which require algorithnms such as are contained in books like this. I own this book and the 1st and 2nd editions of Numerical Recipes in C. I had hoped that a 2nd edition for Pascal would be available. If publishers pay attention to the previous reviewer, I fear it will not be forthcoming. While I can not attest to the value of most of the algorithms contained in this book, those which I needed worked very well indeed and the surrounding discussions were enlightening and often witty. For those of us who need to write stand-alone programs for the great unwashed, piecing together routines from standard packages which require a knowledge of the package (and presumeably of what you are doing) is not an option. In those situations, a book such as this is indispensible.

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Summary: Among the very best!
Review: Numerical Recipes (and N.R. in Pascal) is among my most-used reference books. This is not merely a book to help programmers shortcut through horrific number-crunching code. It is also a well-written text on the theory and practice of numerical methods. I can't imagine doing my job without it!

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Summary: Among the very best!
Review: Numerical Recipes (and N.R. in Pascal) is among my most-used reference books. This is not merely a book to help programmers shortcut through horrific number-crunching code. It is also a well-written text on the theory and practice of numerical methods. I can't imagine doing my job without it!

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Summary: good but not really useful
Review: The algorithms given and explained in this book are good, but nowadays most of them are contained in any standard numerical software (such as Matlab).