Title: Specialized but useful
Review: The title of the book is slightly misleading. This book covers numerical methods for Chemistry in great details and shows how to implement them in Excel. It could be the foundation of an undergraduate numerical anaysis course for chemistry students or chemical engineering students.I'm a physicist, so I can't comment on the chemical models presented in the book. Still, I learned a lot of things about Excel that I didn't know and it helped me implement customized VBA functions in some of my spreadsheets. In that respect, Chapter 8: Write your own macros, proved very useful. I got something else from the book: use Excel at your own perils. It is great for quickly whipping together a plot, a quick calculation, but it is not a robust numerical calcuation engine. The book advises to declare all variables as double precision - it is one way to alleviate the problem.
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