Paul Rubin wrote: > You might look at the Numerical Recipes books for clear descriptions > of how to do this stuff in the real world. Maybe the experts here > will jump on me for recommending those books since I think the serious > numerics crowd scoffs at them (they were written by scientists rather > than numerical analysts) but at least from my uneducated perspective, > I found them very readable and well-motivated.
As a scientist (well, former scientist) and programmer, I scoff at them for their code. The text itself is decent if you need a book that covers a lot of ground. For any one area, though, there are usually better books. _Matrix Computations_, which I mentioned elsewhere, is difficult to beat for this area. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
