Detailed table of contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the author -- Introducing visual basic for applications -- Fundamentals of programming with VBA -- Worksheet functions for working with matrices -- Number series -- Interpolation -- Differentiation -- Integration -- Roots of equations -- Systems of simultaneous equations -- Numerical integration of ordinary differential equations part 1 : initial conditions -- Numerical integration of ordinary differential equations part 2 : boundary conditions -- Partial differential equations -- Linear regression and curve fitting -- Nonlinear regression using the solver -- Random numbers and the Monte Carlo method --

Appendices -- Appendix 1 ; Selected VBA keywords -- Appendix 2 : Shortcut keys for VBA -- Appendix 3 : Custom functions help file -- Appendix 4 : Some equations for curve fitting -- Appendix 5 : Engineering and other functions -- Appendix 6 : ASCII codes -- Appendix 7 : Bibliography -- Appendix 8 : Answers and comments for end-of-chapter problems -- Index.