books about: computation

books about: computation

books:

Computation

Pattern Classification (2nd Edition)

Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart, ...

Wiley-Interscience, 2000

excellent revision of a classical text on statistical pattern recognition
The 1973 book by Duda and Hart was a classic. It surveyed the literature on pattern classification and scene analysis and provided the practitioner with wonderful insight and exposition of the subject. In the intervening 28 years the field has exploded and there has ...

Numerical Recipes 3rd Edition: The Art of Scientific Computing

William H. Press, Saul A. Teukolsky, ...

Cambridge University Press, 2007

Essential book on scientific computing
Fifteen years after its previous edition, this peerless book on scientific computing has been upgraded with some very welcome changes. Not only have some advances in scientific computing been incorporated, the explanations are even clearer and more detailed than ...

Introduction to the Theory of Computation, Second Edition

Michael Sipser

Course Technology, 2005

My choice for textbook in my computation theory class
I recently encountered this book at a publisher's booth at a computer conference and read it on the ride back home. This morning I made a trip to the college bookstore and notified them that it is the textbook that I will be using in my computation theory class this ...

Bayesian Computation with R (Use R)

Jim Albert

Springer, 2008

more practicality added to Bayesian inference
Jim Albert is a great teacher and an excellent writer. The R language is becoming one of the most used languages by statistical researchers. This is because it has many similarities to S and can be used freely, Jim makes R easy to learn for statisticians in this ...

Using OpenMP: Portable Shared Memory Parallel Programming (Scientific and Engineering Computation)

Barbara Chapman, Gabriele Jost, ...

The MIT Press, 2007

Good Performance on a Multicore Machine - Try OpenMP?
I have most of the parallel computing books out there so I am sort of a collector of sorts. Most focus on either the basics of parallel programming, MPI, OpenMP, both, or some other less popular (yet) paradigm e.g. PFortran, TBB, etc. With every parallel-computing ...

The Algorithm Design Manual

Steven S. Skiena

Springer, 2008

Accessible Guide to Algorithm Design
For those computer science students and programmers who are put off by the style of "Introduction to Algorithms" by Cormen et al., this book is a good alternative. Rather than just being a catalog of algorithms with code and little explanation, this book covers a much ...

Matrix Computations (Johns Hopkins Studies in Mathematical Sciences)(3rd Edition)

Gene H. Golub, Charles F. Van Loan

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996

The bible of numerical linear algebra
This book is the standard reference for all numerical linear algebra. It is a graduate-level applied math textbook written by practicing professionals for practicing professionals. If you are new to the topic you would probably prefer something like James Demmel's ...

Getting Started with MATLAB 7: A Quick Introduction for Scientists and Engineers (The Oxford Series in ...

Rudra Pratap

Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

The BEST first MATLAB book for scientists and engineers
This book is a true joy to read. It is well-organized, well-written, and provides the most clearly illustrated (through examples and figures) introduction to MATLAB I have found. More importantly, it is specifically geared to scientists and engineers e.g. those ...

Betcha! Estimating (Mathstart, Level 3)

Stuart J. Murphy

HarperTrophy, 1997

Get For First Tiem Estimators
This is a great book for children who know how to estimate and for those who are just learing. This book is filled with pictures and illistrations on how you would estimate wiht a many number of things. A thing that I liked about this book is that it just wasn't ...

A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

Wolfram Media, 2002

Big, Beautiful and Formidable
I received A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram in July 2002. It sits on a shelf in a place of honor. Occasionally, I take it down and open it as one would an expensive Bible. Someday, I'll really study it. Until then I love its feel, its heft, its marvelous and ...

Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications

Mark de Berg, Otfried Cheong, ...

Springer, 2008

A very nice introduction to the field
The authors did a great job of introducing the reader to all the important aspects of the field of computational geometry while keeping it simple and understandable.

Algorithms in C++, Parts 1-4: Fundamentals, Data Structure, Sorting, Searching (3rd Edition)

Robert Sedgewick

Addison-Wesley Professional, 1998

Excellent, Exhaustive (but not rigorous)
If you're looking for an exhaustive, upto-date reference/textbook for fundamental, searching and sorting algorithms, then this is one of the very best available. Sedgewick has split his popular book into two volumes, with Graph algorithms being hifted to the ...

Introduction to Linear Optimization (Athena Scientific Series in Optimization and Neural Computation, 6)

Dimitris Bertsimas; John N. Tsitsiklis

Athena Scientific, 1997

Nice intuition and good coverage
The best part of this book is the first half, where the foundations of linear programming are presented in a clear yet relatively rigorous fashion, accompanied by numerous intuitive geometrical explanations of the abstract general concepts. This approach, supplementing ...

Approximation Algorithms

Vijay V. Vazirani

Springer, 2004

Very nice introduction
This is a quite nice book by an author who is well-known in the field. The book is not thematic, instead it presents certain problems in each chapter along with the main approximation algorithms and correctness proofs. Yet, each new concept is well introduced with the ...

Using MPI - 2nd Edition: Portable Parallel Programming with the Message Passing Interface (Scientific and ...

William Gropp, Ewing Lusk, ...

The MIT Press, 1999

Thorough coverage of MPI programming in Fortran, C, and C++
This book is an excellent introduction to programming with the MPI. It gradually introduces concepts from the simple to the complex. This is done with examples that illustrate the use of different techniques. The examples include the code to implement them. The ...