The references collected here are those of general usefulness, usually cited in more than one section of this book. More specialized sources, usually cited in a single section, are not repeated here. We first list a small number of books that form the nucleus of a recommended personal reference collection on numerical methods, numerical analysis, and closely | References The references collected here are those of general usefulness usually cited in more than one section of this book. More specialized sources usually cited in a single section are not repeated here. We first list a small number of books that form the nucleus of a recommended personal reference collection on numerical methods numerical analysis and closely related subjects. These are the books that we like to have within easy reach. Abramowitz M. and Stegun . 1964 Handbook of Mathematical Functions Applied Mathematics Series Volume 55 Washington National Bureau of Standards reprinted 1968 by Dover Publications New York Acton . 1970 Numerical Methods That Work 1990 corrected edition Washington Mathematical Association of America Ames . 1977 Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations 2nd ed. New York Academic Press Bratley P. Fox . and Schrage . 1983 A Guide to Simulation New York Springer-Verlag Dahlquist G. and Bjorck A. 1974 Numerical Methods Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice-Hall Delves . and Mohamed . 1985 Computational Methods for Integral Equations Cambridge . Cambridge University Press Dennis . and Schnabel . 1983 Numerical Methods for Unconstrained Optimization and Nonlinear Equations Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice-Hall Gill . Murray W. and Wright . 1991 Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization vol. 1 Redwood City CA Addison-Wesley Golub . and Van Loan . 1989 Matrix Computations 2nd ed. Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press Oppenheim . and Schafer . 1989 Discrete-Time Signal Processing Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice-Hall Ralston A. and Rabinowitz P 1978 A First Course in Numerical Analysis 2nd ed. New York McGraw-Hill Sedgewick R. 1988 Algorithms 2nded. Reading MA Addison-Wesley Stoer J. and Bulirsch R. 1980 Introduction to Numerical Analysis New York Springer-Verlag Wilkinson . andReinsch C. 1971 Linear Algebra vol. IIof Handbook for Automatic Computation New York Springer-Verlag Sample page .