Numerical Recipes Source Code CD-ROM 3rd Edition: The Art of Scientific Computing 3rd Edition

I was immediately able to put the code on this disc to work in a program I’m writing

In addition to containing the code from all their books, it also contained a very nice directory of hard-to-find material called "Code Museum". In the museum section was code from two of Louis Baker's books that were said to be out of print. I found both of those books on Amazon and they will soon be added to my library as well. I purchased them used so I got them for a very low price. I would never have known about those treasures if I had not purchased this CD. The single-user license that you get with the CD is very permissive as well. I could not be happier unless I had found cash inside the CD case. ;D

This is an excellent collection of mathematical techniques for the practicing engineer or computer scientist. It goes into a littlemore detail than the previous editions. It is a valuable addition to the library of anyone who does computer simulation. My onlycomplaint is that the accompanying software is complexly interwoven, and a little difficult to pick out just one part to use.

It's an optical disk of all of their code throughout the years, since 1987-ish. A larger part of the disk is a file of random numbers. I don't know how to use that. But there it is. So it goes.

Works very well.

Includes "secret" content, 250MB of physically-generated (see AoE III, Figure 13.121) thoroughly-random numbers. Recommended.

Excellent readable book for scientists and engineers. This should be your go to reference. I knocked it down from five stars to four as the authors chose to remove the code from the text. The code often aided me in understanding problems in previous editions.Nonetheless, the book is unsurpassed in readibility.

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 needs the extra oomph of multiple processors, and the algorithms are all that they're supposed to be. You can imagine my astonishment to discover that v3.0 is sequential C++ code. The authors made a big deal about parallel Fortran being the future of scientific computing in the preface of their Second Edition. Now all it merits is a bowdlerization of Shakespeare in a footnote on p. xi. Indeed, "what a falling off was there!"NR/v3.0 cuts off at least a portion of its high-end users, and that ain't progress. Had I realized this was going to happen, I would never have upgraded. As it is, I'm stuck with the Fortran 90 legacy portion of the CD. This might not be so bad if this code were supported, but it's not.I strongly urge the authors to move to a parallel version of their new code and to support the Fortran code at least in the interim. The electronic text could provide a medium for so doing.My displeasure obviously extends to the text, the production of which is superb, by the way.