Numerical Recipes in Pascal (First Edition) The Art of Scientific Computing [Hardcover]

Numerical Recipes in Pascal fills a long-recognized need for a practical, comprehensive handbook of scientific computing in the Pascal language.This is the new Pascal version of this highly successful text and reference . It provides easy-to-read discussions of the most important practical techniques for science and engineering. More than 200 actual working Pascal procedures are ready to be included inthe reader's own program.This is the new Pascal version of this highly successful text and reference . It provides easy-to-read discussions of the most important practical techniques for science and engineering. More than 200 actual working Pascal procedures are ready to be included inthe reader's own program.This version of the first edition of Numerical Recipes contains the original 200 routines translated into Pascal along with the tutorial text. In a single volume, Numerical Recipes in Pascal provides lucid, easy-to-read discussions of the most important practical numerical techniques for science and engineering. The programs contained in this book are also available as machine-readable code on the Numerical Recipes Code CD-ROM with Windows/Macintosh Single Screen License.1. Preliminaries; 2. Solution of 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 nonlinear sets of equations; 10. Minimization or maximization of functions; 11. Eigensystems; 12. Fourier transform spectral methods; 13. Statistical description of data; 14. Modeling of data; 15. Integration of ordinary differential equations; 16. Two point boundary value problems; 17. Partial differential equations; Appendices; Table of program dependencies. This book is indispensable to anyone who wishes to employ numerical techniques quickly and confidently without becoming an expert in applied mathematics. Journal of Nuclear Medicine Anyone who is numerate will real£6