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From: SHAPIRO.BLUME@BIONET-20.BIO.NET (John Blume)
Newsgroups: bionet.software.contrib
Subject: Where can a poor, dumb mol. biologist learn some math?
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Date: 26 Oct 88 02:51:03 GMT
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I am trying to learn something about scientific computer
programming.  Can anyone suggest a book or set of books that
would be worth reading in order to pick up some of the
fundamentals of the necessary math involved in most biological
computer applications?

I am also interested in comments from anyone concerning what
might be a good language to work in.  I'm learning "C" now, like
half of the world, but would like to know people's opinion of
C's viability as a hard-core scientific language.

John Blume				shapiro.blume@bionet-20.bio.net
Department of Biochemistry		blume@b.scs.uiuc.edu
University of Illinois			jebg0430@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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