TY  - BOOK
AU  - Knuth, Donald Ervin
TI  - The art of computer programming, volume 2: seminumerical algorithms 
SN  - 9780201896848
AV  - QA 76.6 .K58 1998   
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Boston, Massachusetts
PB  - Addision-Wesley Publishing Company
KW  - ELECTRONIC DIGITAL COMPUTERS -- PROGRAMMING
N1  - Includes index; Chapter 3-Random Numbers -- Chapter 4-Arithmetic -- Answers to Exercises -- Appendixes -- Index and Glossary
N2  - 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
ER  -