Physics 3730/6720 Suggested Reference Books

General computational physics:

• * Landau, R. H. & Páez, M. J. 1997 Computational Physics : problem solving with computers (New York: John Wiley & Sons).
• * Press, W. H., et al. 2002, Numerical Recipes in C++ : the art of scientific computing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

  The Numerial Recipes book is is a more advanced reference combining numerical methods and algorithms. Students who plan to do any amount of scientific computing or numerical data analysis are strongly urged to obtain this book. While you may obtain the C version itself for free, on-line, you must purchase the book to obtain electronic copies of (and user license) to the many pieces of code discussed therein.

Unix:

• * Abrahams, P. W. & Larson, B. R. 1992, Unix for the Impatient (Reading: Addison-Wesley).
• Kernighan, B. W. and Pike, R. 1984, The Unix Programming Environment

Programming languages:

• Kernighan, B. & Ritchie, D. M. 1988, The C Programming Language (Englewood Cliff: Prentice Hall).
• * Flowers, B.H. 2000 An Introduction to Numerical Methods in C++ (Oxford, Oxford University Press).
• * Oualline, S. 1995 Practical C++ Programming (Cambridge: O'Reilly & Associates).
• Wall, L., Christiansen, T., & Schwartz, R. L. 1996, Programming Perl (Cambridge: O'Reilly & Associates).

Maple:

• * Char, Bruce W. et al. First Leaves: A Tutorial Introduction to Maple (Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1992)

Document Preparation:

• * Buerger, D. J. 1990, LaTex for Engineers and Scientists (New York: McGraw-Hill)
• * Kopka, H. and Day, P.W. 1995 A Guide to LaTeX2e (Reading, Addison-Wesley)
• Lamport, L. 1986, LaTex : A Document Preparation System (Reading: Addison-Wesley).