Numerical Recipes

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Numerical Recipes (Eng. "Numerical recipes", subtitles: "The Art of Scientific Computing", "The Art of Scientific Computing") by William H. Press , Saul Teukolsky , William T. Vetterling and Brian P. Flannery , published by the publisher Cambridge University Press, is an English-language textbook on methods of numerical mathematics .

In addition to the explanation and description of numerical methods from the full range of numerical mathematics, it also offers program codes for their implementation in the programming languages Pascal, Fortran, C and, in the current version, C ++.

credentials

Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing (Third Edition), in C ++

The book was published in the third expanded edition in 2007. Six versions of the Numerical Recipes series have been published so far:

Software licensing

The program code published in the books may be typed and used for private purposes only. For programs to be published, the source code must be purchased separately. However, it is only allowed to distribute the program code in compiled, binary programs, in no case the source code itself may be published. For commercial use of the program code, it is also necessary to obtain the authors' permission.

This very restrictive licensing means that the Numerical Recipes source code cannot be used in software that is published under the GPL or similar license. This has sometimes led to severe criticism.

The GNU Scientific Library is a free alternative .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nr.com/licenses nr.com
  2. ↑ see for example astro.umd.edu and http://www.accu.informika.ru/accu/bookreviews/public/reviews/n/n000867.htm ( Memento from January 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

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