NUMERICAL RECIPES IN C

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1. bugfix-66Oct 2022
   Numerical Recipes in C: The Art of Scientific Computing

   https://www.cec.uchile.cl/cinetica/pcordero/MC_libros/Numeri...

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2. supernova87aFeb 2020
   I will say that even if you don't read the bulk of this link, the PDF document itself is a very visually pleasing layout, and the author clearly knows how to design, vary, and break up text to make it more interesting. It's worth a look just to see it briefly.

   I will just add that I can recognize good technical writing in 3 stages of sophistication:

   Stage 1) Someone who has barely mastered the topic and is at the most basic level just telling you the steps to reproduce the result or operate the items or workflow. Once you learn from the material presented (unless extremely complex or required to keep as reference), you rarely go back and study and appreciate this kind of writing repeatedly.

   Stage 2) Someone who has done the analysis and exercise enough that the writing evolves into not just instructions or rote description, but narration through the reasons why they did it this way, the pitfalls to watch out for, what not to do. Starts you thinking about what to do next.

   Stage 3) Someone whose telling of the technical detail is so fluid and practiced that the basics are unquestioned -- the writing now includes well-informed opinions and jokes about past attempts at the outcome, why they failed and their historical context in technical terms. Gives advice on the difficulties that will be encountered and the limits of the method. The writing is so informative that you may return to read it again and again throughout your career.

   One of my favorite texts that reaches Stage 3 is Numerical Recipes in C (which unfortunately I don't have much occasion to refer to nowadays), and the way that programming philosophy, advice, and technical instruction combines in that work is very impressive. Also, many of Griffiths' physics texts, who manages to write with both technical and conversational/narrative mastery.

   If only more writers could be like this.

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3. sg0Apr 2018
   These are the ones right next to me now:

   1. Design Patterns (GoF) - This book is all about design, someday I aim to really understand all the patterns.

   2. High Performance Parallelism Pearls Volume 2 (Reinders/Jeffers) - There are couple of other books similar to this one. But, if you want to know how myriad HPC applications make use of parallel programming models such as MPI and OpenMP, this provides a good introduction.

   3. The Annotated C++ Reference Manual April 1995 hardbound edition (Ellis/Stroustrup) -- What a fantastic little book, also got it for $4.95 at Powell's bookstore in Portland :) IMO this books provides a gentle introduction to C++, you can flip to any page and just start reading.

   4. Numerical Recipes in C (Press, Teukolsky, et al.) - If I need to quickly prototype some scientific computation kernel, this is my go-to book.

   5. Effective C++ 3rd edition (Meyers) - I like to approach this book from the back (i.e., indices), pick up a topic, and then read the contents one by one. Repeat.

   6. Discovering Modern C++: An Intensive Course for Scientists, Engineers, and Programmers (Gottschling) - I like and dislike certain portions of the book. It definitely contains a lot of code explanations of C++ idioms, which helps a beginner like me.

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4. fskJun 2015
   Starting with the easiest:

   boolean logic, boolean algebra

   What does O(n) mean?

   The compound interest formula

   matrix/linear algebra, numerical analysis

   The statistics behind A/B testing

   numerical approximation of a derivative, integral, differential equation

   Read "numerical recipes in C"

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5. TunecrewMar 2015
   kind of an old school selection:

   Deitel & Deitel (all of them?)

   Kernighan & Ritchie - The C Programming Language

   Numerical Recipes in C

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6. davyjonesApr 2013
   You might want to refer to the book "Numerical Recipes in C."
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