All physical scientists and engineers need mathematical tools in their everyday work. This book presents mathematics in a form appropriate for undergraduate courses. The material covered is comprehensive, and takes the student from the level of starting college or university to the end of the most mathematical of science courses. It also provides a valuable reference for advanced students and active researchers in physics, engineering, chemistry, applied mathematics and earth science. Throughout the text, the physical relevance of the mathematics is constantly reinforced, and numerous physical worked examples are included. In this way, it provides scientists who need to use the tools of mathematics for practical purposes with a single, comprehensive textbook. Students will find the book friendly and approachable, and graduate students and researchers will find it an invaluable reference.
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'... the book provides scientists who need to use the tool of mathematics for practical purposes with a single, comprehensive book. I recommend this book not only to students in physics and engineering sciences, but also to students in other fields of natural sciences.' P. Steward, Optik
'... suitable as a textbook for undergraduate use ... this is a book that in view of its content and its modest softcover price, will find its way on to many bookshelves.' Nigel Steele, The Times Higher Education Supplement
'Riley et al. has clear, thorough and straightforward explanations of the subjects treated. It rigorously adopts a three-stage approach throughout the book: first a heuristic, intuitive introduction, then a formal treatment, and finally one or two examples. This consistent presentation, the layout, and the print quality make the book most attractive ... clearness of presentation, comprehensiveness and value for money. It contains a thousand pages, there are plenty of excercises with each chapter, and ... the layout and print quality are very good.' J. M. Thijssen, European Journal of Physics
This is a valuable book with great potential use in present-day university physics courses. Furthermore, the book will be useful for graduate too, and researchers will find it useful for looking up material which they have forgotten since their undergraduate days.' J. M. Thijssen, European Journal of Physics
'... suitable as a textbook for undergraduate use ... this is a book that in view of its content and its modest softcover price, will find its way on to many bookshelves.' Nigel Steele, The Times Higher Education Supplement
'Riley et al. has clear, thorough and straightforward explanations of the subjects treated. It rigorously adopts a three-stage approach throughout the book: first a heuristic, intuitive introduction, then a formal treatment, and finally one or two examples. This consistent presentation, the layout, and the print quality make the book most attractive ... clearness of presentation, comprehensiveness and value for money. It contains a thousand pages, there are plenty of excercises with each chapter, and ... the layout and print quality are very good.' J. M. Thijssen, European Journal of Physics
This is a valuable book with great potential use in present-day university physics courses. Furthermore, the book will be useful for graduate too, and researchers will find it useful for looking up material which they have forgotten since their undergraduate days.' J. M. Thijssen, European Journal of Physics
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A single, comprehensive textbook for those who need to use the tools of mathematics for practical purposes. It takes students from the level of starting college or university to the end of the most mathematical of science courses. Also a valuable reference for advanced students and active researchers in physics, engineering, chemistry, applied mathematics and earth science.
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Best 'Reference' text on Mathematical Methods,
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This review is from: Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering: A Comprehensive Guide (Paperback)
As a physicist I'm constantly scrambling to my bookcases to look something up. This text sits at the top of my shelves and is used more often than any other. I give it 5 stars as a reference text, however I cannot really rate it as a 'learning' mathematical methods text (maybe 3 stars?) since most of the methods are familiar to me.
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All physicists must own this book!!,
By cbullock@python.physics.louisville.edu (Louisville, KY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering: A Comprehensive Guide (Paperback)
If you really want to learn mathematical physics this is the book own. The authors cover a wide range of mathematical topics, explaining all those ideas you always wished other books would. The authors include chapters on: ODE's, PDE's, Fourier series and transforms, matrices and vector spaces, probability, and group theory, as well as solid background material. Sadly, my mathematical physics eduacations was based on "Mathematical methods of physicists" by Arfken and Weber, which is a terrible book, at best. In short, if you can buy only one book on mathematical physics this is it!!
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An exceptional single source reference,
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This review is from: Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering: A Comprehensive Guide (Hardcover)
This is about as good as it gets in a single source reference for the basic mathematics of physics and engineering. The text does assume that the reader has a solid math foundation, but many covered subjects not previously learned (or faded into the dim mist) can be learned or refreshed readily from the text. What is especially nice about this book is the absolute minimalist way that the authors get right to every point. It does not happen often enough in a mathematics text. Just about every essential topic is included; calculus review, differential equations, probability, tensors, series, laplace transforms, eigenfunctions, and on and on - all in the same lucid style. It would have been nice. however, if this book of nearly everything had added a brief appendix of basics, like logarithm identites and other low level algebra and trigonometry fundamentals. It should also be clearly noted that this is not a discipline specific text - the transient function for an RC circuit is not here. This is a math text. That said, if I could have only one math reference text, this would easily be it.
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