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