Links
General
- CSC - Finnish center for scientific computing.
- Numerical Recipes - The basic book on numerical methods.
Programs and libraries
- Mathworks - Matlab homepage
- GNU Octave - Open
source alternative to Matlab
- Scilab - Another
free alternative to Matlab. Graphics
better than in Octave. Both for Linux and
Windows.
- Wolfram Research -
Mathematica home page.
- MuPad - Another symbolic
computation program.
- Maxima - Open
source symbolic computation program. Both for Linux and
Windows. Has also a graphical user: TeXmacs. Check out this nice
introduction.
Maxima and xmaxima
are installed on punk.it.helsinki.fi.
- NAG - Numerical Algorithms
Group.
- LAPACK Linear
Algebra PACKage: probably the most widely used linear algebra
subroutine library.
- IMSL - A
commercial numerical library.
- GNU scientific
library (GSL) - An open source numerical library for C from the GNU
project.
- Netlib - The center
repository for numerical software written in Fortran, C, Matlab,
etc.
- ACM Collected
Algorithms - Software associated with papers published in
the Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS), as well as
other ACM journals.
- GAMS - Guide to
Available Mathematical Software.
- SLATEC - A
comprehensive software library containing over 1400 general
purpose mathematical and statistical routines written in Fortran
77.
- CMLIB -
The NIST Core Math LIBrary (CMLIB) is a collection of
high-quality, easily transportable Fortran subroutines.
- CPC - Computer
programs in physics and physical chemistry. Software archive of
the journal Computer Physics Communications. Journal
subscription required. Download possible from University
network.
- John
Burkardt's home page - Contains many NETLIB software packages in
modernized form (e.g. F77 converted to F90).
Literature
Numerical methods
- J. Haataja, J. Heikonen, Y. Leino, J. Rahola,
J. Ruokolainen, V. Savolainen: Numeeriset menetelmät
käytännössä. CSC - Tieteellinen laskenta OY. 1999 (in
Finnish).
- W. H. Press, S. A. Teukolsky, W. T. Vetterling, Brian P.
Flannery: Numerical Recipes in C, Cambridge
University Press, 1993-1997.
- K. E. Atkinson: An Introduction to Numerical
Analysis, 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, 1989.
- G.M. Phillips and P.J. Taylor: Theory and Applications
of Numerical Analysis, 2nd edition, Academic Press,
1996
- G.H. Golub and C.F. van Loan: Matrix
computations. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
- J.H. Mathews and K. D. Fink: Numerical methods using
Matlab. Third edition. Prentice-Hall 1999.
Computational physics
Data analysis
- P. R. Bevington and D. K. Robinson: Data Reduction and
Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences, Second edition,
McGraw-Hill 1992
- H. Karttunen: Datan käsittely, CSC 1994 (in
Finnish)
- S. Rabinovich: Measurement Errors: Theory and
Practice. American Institute of Physics, New York
- Byron P. Roe: Probability and Statistics in Experimental
Physics. Springer-Verlag, New York 1992
Random numbers
- B.J.T. Morgan: Elements of simulation. Chapman and
Hall. 1984.
Image processing
- B. Jähne, Digital Image processing. Springer-Verlag 1995