Knuth, Donald Ervin <br/><br/>
The art of computer programming, volume 2 :  seminumerical algorithms / 
Donald Ervin Knuth 
 - Third edition. 
 - Boston, Massachusetts :  Addision-Wesley Publishing Company,  c1998 
 - xiii, 764 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Chapter 3-Random Numbers -- Chapter 4-Arithmetic -- Answers to Exercises -- Appendixes -- Index and Glossary 
<br/><br/> The second volume offers a complete introduction to the field of seminumerical algorithms, with separate chapters on random numbers and arithmetic. The book summarizes the major paradigms and basic theory of such algorithms, thereby providing a comprehensive interface between computer programming and numerical analysis. Particularly noteworthy in this third edition is Knuth's new treatment of random number generators, and his discussion of calculations with formal power series. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780201896848 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>ELECTRONIC DIGITAL COMPUTERS -- PROGRAMMING
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QA 76.6 .K58 1998