[sdiy] DSP book recommendation wanted

[David G. Dixon]

The best numerical methods book I've ever seen, if you can still find a
copy, is "Applied Numerical Methods" by Carnahan, Luther and Wilkes (circa
1968).  It was written primarily for chemical engineers (which I used to be,
lo these many moons ago), but it has the best explanations and examples, in
simple straightforward language.  And, it was written at a time when
computer programming was done strictly in FORTRAN with punchcards (ah, those
were the days!) so there's very little extra bullshit involved.  It's the
only numerical math book, for example, where I've ever seen a decent writeup
of Gaussian Quadrature for solving integrals -- an unbelievably useful
technique if you do any statistics at all.

Numerical Recipes in C (or FORTRAN) is also very good, but probably a bit
too detailed for those just starting out.


> Antti Huovilainen <ajhuovil at cc.hut.fi> wrote:
> > Basic numerical methods come in handy too.
> 
> Do you have any recommendations for resources on
> numerical methods?
> 
> -- Daniel
> 
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