Fully updated new edition of a bestseller

For anyone who wants a hands-on approach to scientific computing

2 new chapters, 25 new sections, updated throughout and 25% longer than the previous edition

Co-authored by four leading scientists from academia and industry, Numerical Recipes Third Edition starts with basic mathematics and computer science and proceeds to complete, working routines. This new edition incorporates more than 400 Numerical Recipes routines, many of them new or upgraded, making this the most accessible and practical basis for scientific computing available. The executable C++ code, now printed in color for easy reading, adopts an object-oriented style particularly suited to scientific applications. The whole book is presented in the informal, easy-to-read style that made earlier editions so popular. Order today!

New key features include:

• 2 new chapters, 25 new sections, and is 25% longer than Second Edition
• Thorough upgrades throughout the text
• Over 100 completely new routines (in new chapters and sections) and upgrades of many more.
• linear algebra, interpolation, special functions, random numbers, nonlinear sets of equations, optimization, eigensystems, Fourier methods and wavelets, statistical tests, ODEs and PDEs, integral equations, and inverse theory

New chapters cover such key topics as:

• Classification and inference, Gaussian mixture models, HMMs, hierarchical clustering, Support Vector Machines, computational geometry, covering KD trees, quad- and octrees, Delaunay triangulation, and algorithms for lines, polygons, triangles, and spheres
• Interior point methods for linear programming
• Monte Carlo Markov Chains
• An expanded treatment of ODEs with completely new routines
• Many new statistical distributions

And much, much more!