Professor Sprott's efforts, contained in this book, address the needs of the scientific programmer
in BASIC. This book is not intended to stand by itself. It is not a full edition of Numerical
Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing. In the full editions (FORTRAN, C, or Pascal) the
algorithms and methods of scientific computation are developed in considerable detail, starting
with basic mathematical analysis and working through to actual implementation in the form of
computer code. This book is intended to supplement anyone of the full editions with, in effect,
a "simultaneous translation" of computer code into the preferred language of the BASIC user. It
is a matter of individual taste which full edition the user should choose. BASIC is syntactically
closer to FORTRAN than to the other languages, but this is perhaps only because that language,
like BASIC, has relatively ancient roots in the computer world. C seems to us to be the language
of most rapid growth within the scientific community.
The text of this book is largely drawn from the Numerical Recipes Example Book. There is thus no need for a separate Example Book in BASIC
Author(s): Julien C. Sprott
Edition: 1
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 1991
Language: English
Pages: XII; 398
City: Cambridge
Title Page
Table of Contents
Foreword by Numerical Recipes Software
Disclaimer of Warranty
Author's Preface
Important Note on Dialects of BASIC
1. Preliminaries
2. 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 Sets of Equations
10. Minimization and Maximization of Functions
11. Eigensystems
12. Fourier Methods
13. Statistical Description of Data
14. Modeling of Data
15. Ordinary Differential Equations
16. Two-Point Boundary Value Problems
17. Partial Differential Equations
Index of Programs (Recipes Index)
Software Products
