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Cambridge University Press, New York, 1991
ISBN 0-521-40689-7 (softcover)
ISBN 0-521-40688-9 (diskette)

The acclaimed Numerical Recipes routines, translated into BASIC

Over 350 recipes and demonstration programs in a single volume

Code, captions and commentary from both the main book and the example book

Written in Microsoft QuickBASIC 4.5 and easily adapted to other modern BASICs

Numerical Recipes

Routines and Examples in BASIC

J. C. Sprott
in association with Numerical Recipes Software
Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin–Madison

About the Book

Modern BASIC programmers will be delighted to learn that the routines and demonstration programs from the highly acclaimed reference book Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing are now available in their language of choice. Numerical Recipes, by William H. Press, Brian P. Flannery, Saul A. Teukolsky and William T. Vetterling, is a complete handbook containing nearly 200 algorithms or "recipes" for scientific computing and numerical analysis, accompanied by the Numerical Recipes Example Book containing the programs that demonstrate the subroutines.

J. C. Sprott has translated all of the recipes and programs, over 350 in all, into BASIC. This book brings the routines and programs together in a single source that includes computer code and code captions from both the book and the example book and the commentary from the example book. It is recommended for use with one of the main Numerical Recipes books.

More About the Book

Notes on the BASIC code and its availability are on the book's home page.

Last updated October 25, 2026