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Numerical Recipes Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing, Third Edition in C++ (2007)
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More Than Curious More Than Curious: A Science Memoir
The 2023 autobiographical memoir of Numerical Recipes co-author William H. Press, free to read or download.

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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 in print or supported, but are made available here for users with legacy code.
Numerical Recipes in C Numerical Recipes in C, Second Edition (1992)
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Numerical Recipes in Fortran Numerical Recipes in Fortran 77, Second Edition (1992)
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Numerical Recipes in Fortran Numerical Recipes in Fortran 90, Second Edition (1996)
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More Books Hosted by NR

We are pleased to host a few useful and/or otherwise homeless ebooks, in all applicable cases by permission of the copyright holder.
Handbook Abramowitz and Stegun, Handbook of Mathematical Functions
(10th corrected printing, 1972)
free, with index and hyperlinks in html.

Or, download Alan P. Sexton's good-quality scan of the whole book (large file: 52 MB).

Bateman Erdelyi et al. (Bateman Manuscript Project)
Higher Transcendental Functions (vols. 1, 2, and 3)
McGraw-Hill, 1953-1955
(Copyright renewed 1981-1983 by California Institute of Technology.)
PDF format: Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3.
EB 11th ed. Encyclopaedia Britannica
the great 11th Edition (1911)
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Devroye Luc Devroye
Non-Uniform Random Variate Generation
Springer, 1986