I am updating this page from when I taught the course two years ago.

This page contains the useful background reading for physics p373. None of this material will be tested, however it will deepen your understanding of the course (and hopefully help with the assignments).

• Background information about UNIX
  • UNIX FAQ
  • UNIX world magazine
  • Description of different types of shell
  • The Linux Documentation Project Home Page
  • A Guide through the UNIX World
  • Some advanced information about RISC6000
  • AIX Frequently asked questions
• Reference information on computer languages
  • Fortran FAQ
  • Fortran 90
  • High Performance Fortran Forum Home Page
  • C++ information
  • C++ and C garbage collectors
• Mathematical software
  • Differential equations
  • Numerical Recipes home page
  • Overview of numerical algebra
• Mathematical libraries
  • Cornell tutorial on ESSL
  • IBM ESSL page
  • Cornell tutorial IMSL
  • Visual Numerics, Inc. IMSL Page
• Computers
  • Computer networks
  • Computer Architecture
• Statistics
  • Stat-LIB
• Cosmic rays
  • Local cosmic ray research
• Chaos references
  • Chaos from Nonlinear Mappings
• Computational science
  • An intoduction to computational science

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Last modified: Fri Mar 27 15:31:40 1998