<div class="head">What is Numerical Recipes?</div><p></p><div class="main">Numerical Recipes™ is a series of text and reference books on "the art of scientific computing" that is famous for its engaging text and lucid mathematical and algorithmic explanations. The book includes commented full listings of now more than 400 unique C++ routines that can be downloaded in machine-readable form (see right) for inclusion in users' programs. <p>The book <i>Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing, Third Edition</i> (2007) is published in hardcover by Cambridge University Press (ISBN-10: 0521880688, or ISBN-13: 978-0521880688). </p><p><b>You can buy the book at better bookstores, from Amazon.com <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0521880688/numericalrecipesA/">here</a>, or order directly from Cambridge University Press <a href="http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521880688">here</a>.</b></p><p><a href="http://www.nr.com/nr3contents.pdf">Table of Contents</a></p><p> <br/></p></div>