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2. Re: Knuth (was Re: Random function)

• Posted by Jiri Babor <jbabor at PARADISE.NET.NZ> Mar 11, 2001
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Jeff, if you are really serious about getting a copy of Knuth's 'The
Art of Computer Programming', amazon.com will sell you a boxed set of
the first three volumes for about $135. That's a lot of money, in my
view anyway, if it were destined just to gather dust on your
bookshelf. Andy was right, it's probably not the easiest text to
wrestle with...

What about getting a copy of Robert Sedgewick's 'Algorithms' instead?
I love the book. It's much more concise, beautifully laid out and very
easy to read. All examples are written in a sort of fundamental pascal
so they are not difficult to follow. My copy is a Addison-Wesley
second edition from 1988, but since it is such a nice book, I am sure
you can find a more recent edition, probably with the examples on a
diskette.

And while I am at it, can I make a couple more suggestion? If you are
into any kind of scientific computing, your life will be much easier
if you get 'Numerical Recipes' with subtitle 'The Art of Scientific
Computing' by William H. Press et al. It is a very reliable resource
you can mine for the rest of your life. I have a pascal version from
1987, I also used a fortran version on several occasions, and I would
not be surprised if there was a C version floating around as well by
now.

The last one is rather specialized, but invaluable if your computer
modelling involves finite element methods of any kind. It is called
'Numerical Methods in Finite Element Analysis', by Klauss-Jurgen Bathe
and Edward L. Wilson, and published by Prentice-Hall. The book does
not contain any actual code, but all algorithms are thoroughly
described, step by step using the standard mathematical notation, so
if you can follow that, you can't go wrong.

jiri


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Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 6:43 PM
Subject: Knuth (was Re: Random function)


> On Thu, 08 Mar 2001 20:38:26 -0800, Jiri Babor
<jbabor at PARADISE.NET.NZ>
> wrote:
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> >May I suggest a bit of reading if general enlightenment is the real
> >purpose of your raids after all? Donald E. Knuth's 'The Art of
> >Computer Programming' would be a good start.
>
> Jiri - can you give me some pointers to where I can find a copy?  Or
the
> info I need to have Barnes and Noble order it for me?
>
>
> --
> Jeff Zeitlin
> jzeitlin at cyburban.com
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