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Summary: This book deserves 10 stars
Review: Run, don't walk to get this book! Remember all those numerical analysis classes you had to take, in which you learned absolutely nothing? Ever used a "black box" numerical integration routine with a bunch of "magic" coefficients that came from God knows where and do God knows what? Do you understand the relationship between z transforms and "backward differences?" This book explains all this and more in a clear, readable, and dare I say, even entertaining presentation (I read it in one sitting cover-to-cover.) Over the years, I've purchased quite a few technical reference books. Most seem to be weighty self-congratulatory monuments to the authors' personal ability to present fantastically-terse-yet-look-how-rigorous mathematical proofs. Maybe 1 in 100 is actually written in a down-to-earth, accessible way without pages of dense jargon and overly complicated formulations. "Math Toolkit for Real-time Programming" is simply the best numerical analysis/numerical programming book I've ever read, and perhaps the best technical book on any subject, period. Do yourself a favor and get this book ASAP.
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Summary: Lack of example to fully demonstrate the knowledge.
Review: The book review how an algorithm is implemented using C/C++. The book often override many of the default routine, with long boring text broken in pieces here and there. This is a good book if you are already very fluence in math, but could be very boring and useless if you are not. Note that the CD only contain less a 500KB of text file!!
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Summary: gold mine
Review: There were great tips right from page 1. Its a gold mine
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Summary: A clearly written book by a competent, experienced author
Review: This book describes and shows how to calculate mathematical functions to any desired number of bits of accuracy in the minimum possible machine time. It does this by not using the classical infinite series derived in calculus class. It uses approximations derived by the author or from the public domain. Even though I detest computer programming and rarely do it, I found the mathematical aspects of this book good entertainment and mind expanding. It was also refreshing to find a mathematical person who could explain things clearly. My past experience with mathematicians is that they would have trouble teaching a duck how to swim.
Rating:
Summary: A clearly written book by a competent, experienced author
Review: This book describes and shows how to calculate mathematical functions to any desired number of bits of accuracy in the minimum possible machine time. It does this by not using the classical infinite series derived in calculus class. It uses approximations derived by the author or from the public domain. Even though I detest computer programming and rarely do it, I found the mathematical aspects of this book good entertainment and mind expanding. It was also refreshing to find a mathematical person who could explain things clearly. My past experience with mathematicians is that they would have trouble teaching a duck how to swim.
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