This third edition is expanded Numerical Recipes has it, with broader coverage than ever before, many new, expanded and updated sections, and two completely new chapters. Overview of new material including: a new chapter on classification and inference, Gaussian mixture models, HMMs, hierarchical clustering, and SVMs, a new chapter on computational geometry, covering KD trees, quad-and octrees, Delaunay triangulation, and algorithms for lines, polygons, triangles, and the environment; interior point method for linear programming; MCMC, extended care properly Odes new routines, and many new statistical distributions.