Schaum's Outlines Vector Analysis (And An Introduction to Tensor Analysis) [Paperback]

Murray R. Spiegel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1968 | ISBN-10: 007060228X | ISBN-13: 978-0070602281 | Edition: 1St Edition

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About the Author

Murray Speigel, Ph.D., was Former Professor and Chairman of the Mathematics Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Hartford Graduate Center.

Product Details

• Paperback: 225 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1St Edition edition (June 1, 1968)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 007060228X
• ISBN-13: 978-0070602281
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #646,078 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If there is more than 5 stars?, July 27, 2001

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khaled (Jordan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Schaum's Outlines Vector Analysis (And An Introduction to Tensor Analysis) (Paperback)

The one published in 1959 deserves to be one of the finest books written about vectors .The way it deals with the subject prepare the reader smoothly in mastering the basics of vector analysis, its for the engineer, physicist and mathematician.

By the way the full name of the book is "Vector Analysis and an Introduction to Tensor Analysis"

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Practise With All Basic Vector/Tensor Analysis, November 1, 2000

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Andy Gregory (Cleveland England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Schaum's Outlines Vector Analysis (And An Introduction to Tensor Analysis) (Paperback)

This is great as a preparatory or supporting text. I worked through virtually all of the 'supplementary' problems and found the chapters on curvilinear coordinates and tensor analysis very useful preparation for the study of General Relativity texts. Major parts of Landau and Lipschitz 'Classical Theory of Fields' and many other texts were readily accessible after doing the sums from Spiegel. Eminently suitable for independent study.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An outstanding tutorial reference, November 3, 2003

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David Gillies (San Jose, Costa Rica) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Schaum's Outlines Vector Analysis (And An Introduction to Tensor Analysis) (Paperback)

I love this book. I've owned three copies of it over the years and I can honestly say that I would not have achieved the final class of degree in Physics that I did without it.

The learning curve is very gentle - really nothing is assumed about the reader's background beyond basic integral and differential calculus. The concepts of vectors are introduced one by one, and the book builds logically towards its final stages (introductory tensor analysis) via, inter alia, dot and cross products, partial differential operators on vector spaces (grad, div, curl, Laplacian etc.), line and surface integrals (along with vital allied therorems such as Stokes' and Green's theorems), and general theory of curvilinear coordinate systems (in which the differential operators are refined and generalised).

This book is absolutely ideal for an undergraduate course in Physics, Electronic Engineering or Vector Analysis.