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What is Numerical Recipes?

Numerical Recipes™ is a series of text and reference books on "the art of scientific computing" that is famous for its engaging text and lucid mathematical and algorithmic explanations. The book includes commented full listings of now more than 400 unique C++ routines that can be downloaded in machine-readable form (see right) for inclusion in users' programs.

The book Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing, Third Edition (2007) is published in hardcover by Cambridge University Press (ISBN-10: 0521880688, or ISBN-13: 978-0521880688).

You can buy the book at better bookstores, from Amazon.com here, or order directly from Cambridge University Press here.

What's in the Book?

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  Table of Contents
  Preface
  Sample Pages
  Index

Book, or Electronic, or both?

If you purchase the book and later subscribe to Numerical Recipes Electronic (see right), a coupon in the book will entitle you to convert your initial subscription to a lifetime* subscription at no additional cost.

The book will be available in August, 2007. Numerical Recipes Electronic is scheduled for relase in Q1, 2008.
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C++ code from the book as machine-readable files, with a perpetual personal single-user license.
Complete book pages, plus extra new sections, are available electronically by annual subscription.

What's New in the Third Edition?

Lots! The Third Edition has 2 new chapters, 25 new sections, and is about 25% longer than the 2nd edition. Its code is wholeheartedly object oriented, demonstrating diverse techniques for using the full power of C++. Color and marginal labels add clarity to the text and code. Journal references now include article titles. New or expanded topics include:

Classification and inference (including Gaussian mixture models, hidden Markov modeling, hierarchical clustering, support vector machines); computational geometry (including KD trees, quad- and octrees, Delaunay triangulation, polygons, triangles, spheres); many new statistical distributions; completely new ODE routines; expanded random deviates; spectral and pseudospectral methods for PDEs; interior point methods for linear programming; expanded sparse matrices; interpolation in multidimensions; quadrature by variable transformation; fast spherical harmonic transforms; fast incremental quantile estimation; information theoretic properties of distributions; wavelets on the interval; kriging; phylogenetic trees; soft error decoding; stochastic simulation of reaction networks; and much, much more!
*lifetime means for as long as a Third Edition electronic subscription is offered to new subscribers, plus 3 years. We intend this to be at least 10 years. However, if, due to circumstances beyond our control, such offering becomes unfeasible, then any refund of subscription fees will be based pro-rata on a 3 year subscription term. The cost of the book is not pro-rata refundable.