Alternatives to Numerical Recipes
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Nasa once hosted an interesting web page listing better alternatives to the infamous book Numerical Recipes. Here is a copy courtesy of The Wayback Machine : There is no single alternative to Numerical Recipes. The authors of Numerical Recipes provide a superficial overview of a large amount of material in a small volume. In order to do so, they made many unfortunate compromises. It is naïve to hope that every computational problem can be solved by a simple procedure that can be described in a few pages of chatty prose, and using a page or two of Fortran or C code. Today's ambitions for correctness, accuracy, precision, stability, "robustness", efficiency, etc. demand sophisticated codes developed by experts with deep understanding of their disciplines. We have long ago outgrown the capabilities of the simplistic approaches of 30 years ago. Steve Sullivan has constructed a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) list on numerical analysis. ...