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Advanced Engineering Mathematics

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I am extremely dissapointed with this new edition of the text and have one advise only: If you own 2nd ed., do not indulge in this new edition for even the errors (spellings for one) are xeroxed onto the new edition.

Therefore, for a review of the text itself, you may, without any compunction, refer to 2nd ed.'s comments, of which there are many.

I am not a math major and I don't consider myself to be a smart person, but I did make "A's" in Cal I, II, and III. I also made an "A" in Higher Engineering Math/Differential Equations, but it was not because of this book. It is a very difficult book to read in terms of trying to teach yourself differential equations. Fortunately, I had a great teacher. Ironically, he was teaching straight out of this book. If it had not been for him to interpret this book and point out all of the mistakes in the book, I could not have learned this material on my own. The newer version is the same with the mistakes supposedly corrected. If you like to learn theory and proofs while you are learning how to work problems, then you may find this book to be okay. The layout is not presented in a clear manner, and the explanations are not concise. As I mentioned, I am not a math major and I am not going to be proving anything in grad school, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. I am just a user of math.

This book is terrible. The concepts are explained poorly so that each chapter is a struggle to learn the material, I found I was better off learning about the topics from Wikipedia or those "Dummies" books sold at Barnes and Noble. To make matters worse, there are numerous errors in the problems/answers. This makes it impossible for you to determine whether or not you actually understand the material because if you get an answer wrong you are either driving yourself crazy trying to figure out what you did wrong or you are forced to disregard the book's answer because you assume the book is wrong. Definitely do not buy this book.

I used this text in junior year for a one-semester advanced math class. However, this is the biggest textbook I have owned- little of it is applicable to any one class. However, it is fairly clear and readable as mathematics texts go and I have found it to be an excellent reference for independent use afterwards. It explains many useful techniques for confronting ODEs, PDEs, fourier analyses, and introductory complex analysis. It is clear enough to start practice problems without a professor having to tell you how any problems can be solved. It does not have the most detail, but it shouldn't be- It is a huge comprehensive book, and for further details you probably need a very specialized source anyway.

The book was everything I ever hoped for in a book. It fulfilled all of my textbook needs for differential equations. It even has numbers inside!!! The book arrived in near pristine condition and will remain so because of its importance in my academic endeavors.

I'm using this book for a calculus course right now, and it has been extremely frustrating. The answer key at the back of the book is absolutely filled with errors.

It's the most frustrating thing to spend hours figuring out where you made a mistake on a problem only to have the teacher tell you the answer key is wrong.

The actual content and explanatory sections of the book are pretty good though.

I ordered a textbook for the first time through Amazon.com and unfortunately I had a bad experience. It said that my order would take approximately two weeks, however, it never came. I do appreciate the refund. I am really upset about the inconvenience that I am going through regarding this transaction. I have never had problems purchasing textbooks through any other website, so this is possibly the last time I purchase items through Amazon.com