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Computer Algebra Recipes: An Advanced Guide to Scientific Modeling

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I took this class with one of the authors, George McGuire. The text strongly supports self learning, and has a range of engaging excercises for someone new to using a Computer Algebra system. It should be noted however, that this text exclusively focuses on MAPLE, and many of the harder questions rely on the user making large intuitive leaps in how to program MAPLE, and definitely relies on a large amount of knowledge not explained in the text.

Contacted Springer who manufactured cd in microsoft format incompatible to mac today (26Feb2002).

... These authors are masters. Each author, I find from surfing on the web, has a computer learning lab. The early reading introduces the fact that without the constraints of paper, undergraduates can learn to compose solutions to more realistic problems, eg. golf balls do not go on parabolas but do depend on your irons and crosswinds.

My last read text by the same authors, "Nonlinear Physics with Maple" edition 1 was a really inspiring book full of exercises. A master of solitons, Ablowitz, wrote (with) "Complex Variables" available at [Amazon.com]. Riemann Hilbert problems chapter 7 ought to further flesh out "Nonlinear Physics with Maple" last chapter concerning inverse scattering method in a to me readable manner.