Older Books On-Line

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Numerical Recipes Obsolete Versions
These Second Edition versions of Numerical Recipes in C, Fortran 77, and Fortran 90 are no longer supported, but are made available for users with legacy code.

We hope that you will consider consider switching to the much-expanded and improved Third Edition (2007) in C++, which also has an on-line electronic edition.

Numerical Recipes in C Numerical Recipes in C, Second Edition (1992)
Numerical Recipes in Fortran Numerical Recipes in Fortran 77, Second Edition (1992)
Numerical Recipes in Fortran Numerical Recipes in Fortran 90, Second Edition (1996)

Other Useful Books

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Handbook Abramowitz and Stegun
Handbook of Mathematical Functions
National Bureau of Standards, 1964
(10th corrected printing, 1970)
Devroye Luc Devroye
Non-Uniform Random Variate Generation
Springer, 1986
(out of print, copyright retained by author)