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Professional Excel Development: The Definitive Guide to Developing Applications Using Microsoft Excel, VBA, and .Net

VBA is a stable language, but it is aging. Some examples rely on older conventions. While the math remains timeless, the user interface examples (UserForms) look dated compared to modern UI standards.

| Title | Author(s) | Publisher / Year | Numerical Methods Covered | Typical PDF Source | |-------|-----------|----------------|---------------------------|--------------------| | Numerical Methods with VBA Programming | Scott A. Huckstep | Infinity Science Press (2009) | Root finding, interpolation, differentiation, integration, ODEs, linear systems | Limited; out-of-print – some academic library archives | | Applied Numerical Methods with MATLAB® and VBA (note: mixed languages) | Steven C. Chapra | McGraw-Hill (various editions) | All standard methods; VBA is in supplementary sections/chapters | SpringerLink, McGraw-Hill Access (paid institutional access) | | Excel VBA for Physicists: A Primer (covers numerical methods) | Bernard V. Liengme | IOP Publishing (2016) | Numerical integration, random numbers, least squares, Monte Carlo | IOPscience (paid), some PDF excerpts available | | Numerical Methods for Engineers and Scientists Using Excel/VBA | Joe D. Hoffman | Unpublished course book (widely circulated) | Linear algebra, nonlinear equations, optimization, PDEs | Freely available PDF from author’s site (archived) | | Financial Numerical Methods in VBA | Jackson & Staunton | Wiley (2001) | Option pricing, binomial trees, Monte Carlo, finite differences | Wiley Online Library (paid), but PDFs found on academic repos | | Introduction to Numerical Methods with VBA | J. C. Nash | Self-published / university notes | Simple methods for statistics and optimization | Free PDF via Nash’s personal website |

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