As someone with a budding interest in this, are you finding this stuff on the web? Any specific sites or books where you're finding these implementations?
Most of the textbooks on numerical methods are not very approachable, but Carl Meyer's Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra text is a good start, as are Gilbert Strang's books.
* LAPACK (BLAS is there too) http://www.netlib.org/lapack/explore-html/
* QUADPACK (quadrature integration) http://www.netlib.org/quadpack/
* MINPACK (nonlinear solvers) http://netlib.org/minpack/index.html
* ODEPACK (ordinary differential equations) http://netlib.org/odepack/index.html
Most of the textbooks on numerical methods are not very approachable, but Carl Meyer's Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra text is a good start, as are Gilbert Strang's books.