Numerical Recipes in BASIC - Routines and Examples - Companion Manual to Numerical Recipes - The Art of Scientific Computing

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

This book contains the routines and demonstration programs from the first edition of the highly acclaimed reference book, Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing. It includes computer code and code captions from the book and example book and the commentary from the example book. The author employs a contemporary version of BASIC, Microsoft QuickBasic 4.5, which roughly follows the structure of FORTRAN; in fact, the recipes found in this book are easily adapted for other modern forms of BASIC. This book is recommended for use with one of the main Numerical Recipes books, such as Numerical Recipes in Fortran 77 [link to 43064X]. 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 [link to 576083].

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 Fuunctions -- 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 -- 15. Ordinary Differential Equations -- 16. Two-point Boundary Value Problems -- 17. Partial Differential Equations -- Recipes Index. Julien C. Sprott. Companion Manual To Numerical Recipes : The Art Of Scientific Computing. In Association With Numerical Recipes Software. Includes Index. 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 A complete handbook containing nearly 200 algorithms of 'recipes' for scientific computing and numerical analysis. It is recommended for use with one of the main Numerical Recipes books.