Advanced Mathematics for Engineering and Science [Hardcover]

C. F. Chan Man (Author), D. De Kee (Author), P. N. Kaloni (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2003 | ISBN-10: 9812382917 | ISBN-13: 978-9812382917

This is a mathematical text suitable for students of engineering and science who are at the third year undergraduate level or beyond. It is a book of applicable mathematics. It avoids the approach of listing only the techniques, followed by a few examples, without explaining why the techniques work. Thus, it provides not only the know-how but also the know-why. Equally, the text has not been written as a book of pure mathematics with a list of theorems followed by their proofs. The authors' aim is to help students develop an understanding of mathematics and its applications. They have refrained from using cliches like "it is obvious" and "it can be shown", which may be true only to a mature mathematician. On the whole, the authors have been generous in writing down all the steps in solving the example problems. The book comprises ten chapters. Each chapter contains several solved problems clarifying the introduced concepts. Some of the examples are taken from the recent literature and serve to illustrate the applications in various fields of engineering and science. At the end of each chapter, there are assignment problems with two levels of difficulty. A list of references is provided at the end of the book. This book is the product of a close collaboration between two mathematicians and an engineer. The engineer has been helpful in pinpointing the problems which engineering students encounter in books written by mathematicians.

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Readership: Upper level undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in mathematical modeling, mathematical physics and numerical & computational mathematics.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 896 pages
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc (June 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9812382917
• ISBN-13: 978-9812382917
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.4 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,512,910 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars This book is a joke! Don't buy it., September 8, 2009

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This review is from: Advanced Mathematics for Engineering and Science (Paperback)

Don't buy this book! It is a total joke. It is a huge compilation of equations and formulas with very little in between. It is a total disappointment. I was hoping it would have a good discussion of tensors but the chapter on vectors and tensors is useless. If you want a good advanced engineering math book I suggest C. Ray Wylie or Erwin Kreyzig, not this book. I wish I could could get my money back!