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CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae, 30th Edition

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Clearer, newly typeset, and better-indexed than previous editions. Still has the comprehensive integral tables and a good trig reference section. The D.E. reference is still a little obscure. Good series section, good statistics. A nifty, if hardly "standard" topology/ knot section. All in all, keeps most of the good stuff, reorganizes, and resets old versions - due to the ambition of the new sections and scope of the reorganzation, a little bit disorganized. But it'll certainly be taken care of in the next edition by CRC, which consisently produces high-quality handbooks.

The 30th edition is better organized than any previous editions. The print is much clearer and the scope of the reference has been greatly increased. If you own a previous edition of this text and depend on it as I do, the 30th is a must!

The reference covers many topics covered in higher mathmatics. Extensive list of definitions, theorems, formulas for many topics in mathematics - algebra, discrete, analysis, geometry, continous mathematics, many classifications for functions, and statistics. Some of the higher advanced topics include graph theory, abstract mathematics and differential geometry. The material presented is geared towards the serious mathematican than an undergraduate student or basic math user (why 4 star rating). For an undergraduate student, buy Handbook of Mathematics and Computational Science. If you are still interested in exploring mathematics, buy the book!!

This is worthy revision of an English-language classic, and the first since the 25th that has enticed me to purchase it.

This is a solid improvement over previous versions, but I found the typesetting sometimes produced a slightly scattered feel. The reorganisation of topics can be a little hard to navigate, e.g. I found the topics on probability and statistics a little inconveniently laid out, and things like single vs multiple dimension versions of the Newton method not being in the same place or referring to each other.

If you read German or Russian I would recommend Bronstein and Semendjajew "Taschenbuch der Mathematik" over the CRC Handbook. It combines the Russian obsession with depth and thoroughness with a German sense of order and structure.

Zwillinger is an incomparable genius at organizing data, information, theory. See my review of his Handbook of Differential Equations, which is the best thing in its field and which the reader should also purchase regardless of whether currently into differential equations. The other reviewers have done a gone job noting details of this book. Here I would like to answer why tables and formulas are needed in a day when hand computers are everywhere. The answer is that we have to learn to think in terms of tables and formulas to keep at the top of our fields (for example, how many of you know that general relativity is based on sets of tables called tensors?). Computers today are stil mostly not for thinking but for doing long calculations which involve repetition rather than innovative thinking. Make your hobby tables, formulas, equations, inequalities, and you might pass Life 101.

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