Numerical Recipes in C: The Art of Scientific Computing - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 818561816X ISBN 13 : 9788185618166

Editeur : Foundation Books, 2007

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Biographie de l'auteur

(born May 23, 1948) is an astrophysicist, theoretical physicist, computer scientist, and computational biologist. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Other honors include the 1981 Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy.[1] Press has been a member of the JASON defense advisory group since 1977 and is a past chair.[2] In April, 2009, President Obama named Press as a member of his President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).[3] In February, 2012, he became the 165th President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[4] Press attended public schools in Pasadena, California, graduating from Pasadena High School in 1965. His undergraduate education was at Harvard, where he received an A.B. in physics in 1969. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics, from Caltech, in 1973, a student of Kip Stephen Thorne. Press was briefly an assistant professor at Caltech, then was assistant professor at Princeton University (1974 1976) before returning to Harvard as a professor in 1976. At the age of 28, he was the university's then-youngest tenured faculty member (a distinction earlier held by Alan Dershowitz and later by Lawrence Summers and at age 26 Noam Elkies).[5] Press was for more than 20 years a professor of astronomy and physics at Harvard University, and a member of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He was department chair in Astronomy in 1982-1985. In 1998, Press left Harvard to become deputy laboratory director at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), serving under Directors John C. Browne and George Peter Nanos.[6] He oversaw LANL's participation in the Joint Genome Institute and in the construction of the Spallation Neutron Source. Press moved to the University of Texas at Austin in 2007 and, changing his area of research, became the Warren J. and Viola M. Raymer Professor, jointly in the computer science and integrative biology departments. In the field of general relativity, Press is best known for his work with Saul Teukolsky, establishing the dynamic stability of rotating black holes.[7] In astrophysics, Press is best known for his discovery, with Paul Schechter, of the Press Schechter formalism, which predicts the distribution of masses of galaxies in the Universe;[8] and for his work with Adam Riess and Robert Kirshner on the calibration of distant supernovas as "standard candles". This latter work enabled[9][10] the discovery of the accelerating universe by Riess, Brian Schmidt, and Saul Perlmutter, for which they received the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. With Freeman Dyson, Press discovered and named the zero-determinant strategies for the Prisoner's Dilemma and other games.[11] Press is a co-author of the successful Numerical Recipes series of books on scientific computing.

Présentation de l'éditeur

: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Softcover. Book Condition: New. . (illustrator). 2nd edition. . scientific computing available today. The book retains the informal, easy-to-read style that made the first edition so popular, with many new topics presented at the same accessible level. In addition, some sections of more advanced material have been introduced, set off in small type from the main body of the text. Numerical Recipes is an ideal textbook for scientists and engineers and an indispensable reference for anyone who works in scientific computing. Highlights of the new material include: A new chapter on integral equations and inverse methods, Multigrid methods for solving partial differential equations, Improved random number routines, Wavelet transforms, The statistical bootstrap method, A new chapter on "less-numerical" algorithms including compression coding and arbitrary precision arithmetic, Band diagonal linear systems, Linear algebra on sparse matrices, Cholesky and QR decomposition, Calculation of numerical derivatives, Pade approximants, and rational Chebyshev approximation, New special functions, Monte Carlo integration in high-dimensional spaces, Globally convergent methods for sets of nonlinear equations, An expanded chapter on fast Fourier methods, Spectral analysis on unevenly sampled data, Savitzky-Golay smoothing filters, Two-dimensional Kolmogorov-Smirnoff tests, All this is in addition to material on such basic topics as: linear equations, interpolation and extrapolation, integration, nonlinear root-finding, eigensystems, ordinary differential equations, evaluation of functions, sorting, optimization, statistical description and modeling of data, and two-point boundary value problems. Printed Pages: 1020. Bookseller Inventory # 2976

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Foundation Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 818561816X
• ISBN 13: 9788185618166
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 1020
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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