I second this recommendation. For those interested, this is “An interactive application for maths and graphics based on the Lua programming language and the GNU Scientific Library.” for both Windows and Linux. I installed it and keep a shortcut on my Windows desktop for quick calculations.
Maybe I’m missing something, but that webpage only seems to provide a PDF containing the beginning of the book (up through the Preface). Perhaps you need a ACM Digital Library Premium subscription to access the entire book?
Sigh -- they keep changing the rules. I think you have to have a free ACM account. If you send me an email (see my home page in my profile), I'll send you a PDF.
It’s great that Libbrecht put a copy of his 500+ page ‘Snow Crystals’ book on arXiv [0] before an updated version was published by Princeton University Press [1].
The author also co-authored a book about historical and state-of-the-art pi computations called Pi Unleashed (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-56735-3). The code and additional resources are available at https://extras.springer.com/?query=978-3-642-56735-3. Though somewhat dated (circa 2000), there’s a lot of fascinating information in the 229 Mb zip download, including a 133 char C program (pitiny.c) that computes 15000 digits of pi.
Glad you mentioned Pi Unleashed. That tiny pitiny.c program is legendary in its own right. It really highlights the minimalism—squeezing out every bit of performance and precision.
I don’t know what the best book would be, but I found this extract from Andy Farnell’s book “Designing Sound” to be a very helpful introduction to Pure Data:
Another useful book is “Loadbang - ProgrammingElectronic Music in Pd” by Johannes Kreidler. The 2nd edition is evidently out of print, but a free download is available here:
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