Modern BASIC programmers will be delighted to learn that the routines and demonstration programs from the highly acclaimed reference book Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing are now available in their language of choice. Numerical Recipes, by William H. Press, Brian P. Flannery, Saul A. Teukolsky and William T. Vetterling, is a computing and numerical analysis. It is accompanied by the Numerical Recipes Example Book containing programs that demonstrate the subroutines. Julien C. Sprott has translated all of the recipes and programs, over 350 in all, into BASIC. This book brings the routines and programs together in a single source that includes computer code and code captions from both the book and example book and the commentary from the example book. It is recommended for use with one of the main Numerical Recipes books. The author employs Microsoft QuickBasic 4.5, but the recipes are easily adapted for other modern forms of BASIC. The programs contained in this book are also available as machine-readable code on a 5.1/4 inch floppy diskette for IBM compatible computers.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Numerical Recipes Software; Disclaimer of warranty; Author's preface; Important note on dialects of BASIC; 1. Preliminaries; 2. Linear algebraic equations; 3. Interpolation and extrapolation; 4. Integration of functions; 5. Evaluation of functions; 6. Special functions; 7. Random numbers; 8. Sorting; 9. Root finding and sets of equations; 10. Minimization and maximization of functions; 11. Eigensystems; 12. Fourier methods; 13. Statistical description of data; 14. Modeling of data; 15. Ordinary differential equations; 16. Two-point boundary value problems; 17. Partial differential equations; Recipes index.

Reviews

"I recommend this valuable book without reservation." A.D. Booth, Computing Reviews "...a welcome and valuable adjunct to both new practitioners and died-in-the-wool FORTRAN practitioners of scientific computing." S. Townsend, Physics in Canada