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This book is a hybrid between the textbook on C and on numerical analysis. Acquaintance with C is not assumed. Programs, written in C, may be used in MS DOS as well as in UNIX. For each algorithm its correctness is being proved. Although the author does not attempt to write his programs optimal, he made them sufficiently simple and easily readable; double precision is used in programs. The structure of this book is as follows. Chapter 1 is an overview of C with mathematical examples. Chapter 2 concerns the dynamical structures of data, incl. pointers. Chapter 3 contains some more deep features of C. The last, fourth, chapter takes the biggest place in the book, and contains a number of algorithms of important numerical methods with programs. Special attention is paid to linear algebra ( eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a symmetric matrix \(A\), method based on a factorization of an arbitrary matrix \(A\) in a form \(QR\), where \(Q\) is orthogonal, \(R\) is upper-triangular, Newton's method for systems, etc.) and differential equations (an initial value problem for a system of two ordinary differential equations, a boundary value problem for a nonlinear second order ordinary differential equation, heat equation with variable conductivity, the Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problem); however also definite integrals, Fourier coefficients, cubic splines etc. are considered.