Not only older issues of the Numerical Recipes books, but also classics such as
Handbook Abramowitz and Stegun, Handbook of Mathematical Functions (10th corrected printing, 1972)
Bateman, Erdelyi et al. (Bateman Manuscript Project)
Higher Transcendental Functions (vols. 1, 2, and 3)
and
Encyclopaedia Britannica the great 11th Edition (1911)
The Theoretical Physics Reference is an attempt to derive all theoretical physics equations (that are ever needed for applications) from the general and special relativity and the standard model of particle physics.
The goals are:
All calculations are very explicit, with no intermediate steps left out.
Start from the most general (and correct) physical theories (general relativity or standard model) and derive the specialized equations from them (e.g. the Schrödinger equation).
Math is developed in the math section (not in the physics section).
Theory should be presented as short and as explicitly as possible. Then there should be arbitrary number of examples, to show how the theory is used.
There should be just one notation used throughout the book.
It should serve as a reference to any physics equation (exact derivation where it comes from) and the reader should be able to understand how things work from this book, and be ready to understand specialized literature.
Alexandre Stefanov long maintained a list of online math texts and other materials at Geocities, but it appears that his original web site is no longer available. Because these resources may be of interest to our readers, we present here a modified version of Stefanov's list as of November 18, 2009. We welcome corrections or suggested additions to this list.
The links from this page display HTML renderings of the man pages from the Linux man-pages project as well as a curated collection of pages from various other free software projects.
From the author of
The Linux Programming Interface http://man7.org/tlpi/index.html
From the foreword by Tom Truscott:
Netizens: On the Impact and History of Usenet and the Internet is an
ambitious look at the social aspects of computer networking. It examines
the present and the turbulent future, and especially it explores the
technical and social roots of the "Net". A well told history can be
entertaining, and an accurately told history can provide us valuable
lessons.
From the Overview:
Traditional mathematics teaching is largely about solving exactly stated problems exactly, yet life often hands us partly defined problems needing only moderately accurate solutions. This engaging book is an antidote to the rigor mortis brought on by too much mathematical rigor, teaching us how to guess answers without needing a proof or an exact calculation.
Available as printed book and creative commons licensed PDF file.
This is an all new two volume text, completely revised Jan 2011,
text covers how the GPS works from basics all the way through the
operation and implementation of the GPS100SC receiver, a custom
single channel receiver. The text is unique in that not only is
theory covered but the complete details of a functional design
are presented. Detailed schematics (down to part level) and all
design CAD files are included. In addition a chapter is devoted
to the Zarlink chip set, an open software source receiver and all
new material on the Turbo Rogue receiver designed by JPL. There
is no other text like this text. If you want to know how gps
works and how a receiver can be implemented this book is for you.
An on-line book describing the construction of a compiler translating a subset (?) of C into 68000 assembly. The compiler is written in Turbo Pascal.
See also the original site http://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/
This fifteen-part series, written from 1988 to 1995, is a non-technical introduction to compiler construction. You can read the parts on-line or download them in a ZIP file.