Customer Review: I have owned copies of the first two editions of this book and I was impressed with the updates to this third edition. There are several new topics and the existing areas have been updated. I was able to use some of the statistical code in a production piece of software two days after receiving this... more info
Customer Review: My rating reflects dissatisfaction with the concept of v3.0, rather than with how it's been implemented. Given past experience, I'm sure the implementation is just fine. I've been very happily using the parallel version of the v2.10 NR algorithms in Fortran 9x for the past year or more. My work... more info
Customer Review: I totally agree with another reviewer that the biggest drawback of numerical recipes (NR) is that first you have to buy them to see whether you need it or not afterall. Linux these days is way more user-friendly than it used to be. If you have fedora or ubuntu, get gsl with one line
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Customer Review: If you need to see programming examples on how to use the numerical algorithms that have been transformed into C code in Press' classic Numerical Recipes in C, then this is a very handy little book. Every chapter in this book has a one-to-one correspondence with the chapters in Numerical Recipes.... more info
Customer Review: The book and the CD sounded like a convenient bundle. Unfortunately, the CD has some very restrictive terms for its use. Nonetheless, the CD is not the primary part of this purchase. Consider that many of the algorithms in the book are available in standard C libraries or the C++ STL. The more... more info
Customer Review: First, I want to weigh in on the general controversy over Press et al.'s treatment of the code as proprietary. This is a joke and I think was basically intended as such. A lot of the odd job programming world still works on the honor system, and it works, because enough of us respect what is done... more info
Customer Review: I am not going to talk about the subject of the book. If it has been around for those many years (in spite of the so many observational advances in the subject) is because the quality. I just want to say that this edition is poorly built physically. The words are printed with an... more info
Customer Review: The biggest drawback of numerical recipes book is that first you have to buy it to see whether you need it or not. Besides, why pay money if you can get a similar library for free. I found GNU Scientific Library (GSL) to be total replacement for this book. If you have fedora or ubuntu, get gsl with... more info
Customer Review: Important book. Well defined algorithems. Great spectra of problems solved.
Unfortunately the authors overtook the programming stile from Kernigan, which ist C-based and not structured. The programming stile from Wirth would have made the book to a big clasic.
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