Topic Pages in Press (1986 ed)
Amoeba 289-293 slowly convergent method that is easy to use
Interpolation 77-83 Lagrange interpolation
Locate 89-90 short, fast look up routine for unevenly spaced data
Integration 102-103 trapezoidal rules with extrapolation
Gauss Quadrature 121-126 "Best" integration methods
Monte Carlo 191-209:221-225 last refuge for hard to compute items
Fourier Transform 381-386 establishes a Press sign convention
Discrete Fourier T 386-390 estabishes Nyquist limit
Fast Fourier Transf. 390-395 Press's version of the routine
Convolution 407-414 Cannot imagine this without the FFT
Differential Equations 547-562, 569-572 simplest is Euler’s method
Stiff Differential Equations 573-577 generally the case for physics problems
2 pt. Boundary value probs 578-588 standard 1d eigenvalue problem
Partial Differential Equations 615-667 welcome to 2 and more dimensions Laplace equations, Poisson’s equation, Schoedinger Equation, and more
Gauss Jordan 28 standard matrix inversion method (with pivoting)
Extremization 274-289 minimization methods
Marquardt method 523-528 makes matrices invertable and minimization possible