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Table of Integrals, Series, and Products, Seventh Edition

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Gradshteyn and Ryzhik is to the CRC Mathematical Tables as the unabridged Oxford English Dictionary is to Webster's Collegiate. Besides being big, it's easy to find things in, because of the way the integrals are organized into classes. Like any other integral tables, you'll probably have to make a change of variables or two to get your problem into a standard form, but since the classes are well covered, you have a big target to shoot for, so your chances of finding your integral tabulated are excellent.

An unscientific sampling indicates that this book has remarkably few errors. It really helped me through grad school.

After a 7 year wait, the 7th Edition of Gradshteyn & Ryzhik has finally been released! Other reviews speak to the tremendous utility of this classic. It is worth noting that the latest edition now INCLUDES a fully-searchable CD-ROM version of the book. However, I did notice a bug when using this on Windows XP SP2 with FireFox 2.0.0.2. (The CD-ROM is optimized for the Netscape browser and CANNOT be used with Internet Explorer.) Although I am able to click on the "Contents" button and navigate through the sections; and although I am able to go back to the title page by clicking on "Home"; when I click on the "Book Contents" button in the middle, FireFox freezes on me and I have to terminate the browser process.

The paper version is a real touchstone for the practice of all manner of applied mathematics. The CD-ROM version belongs in the discount bin. Here is why:

1) The CD-ROM is edition 5; but edition 6 has been out for 4 years.

2) The DynaText software, which is needed to read/browse/search the book, is showing signs of age. It works fine on the computers of a decade ago but not necessarily on the machines of today. See the review of J.F.Groote.

The product is advertised as working on Macs but will not work on most Macs. Specifically, it does not seem to work on either G4 or G5 hardware with OS X, even under the so-called "Classic" mode. I believe that the problem is that the browser is shipped as an executable that requires a specific architecture.

It is usable under Windows, but you might need to use one of the backwards-compatibility options to run the installer.

It will not apparently run under any form of Linux, the most recent (and rapidly becoming the most popular) transmogrification of Unix. Again, DynaText is put on the CD-ROM as a binary executable; if you are not using SunOS 4 or 5, Solaris or SGI IRIX 5.2 then you can not use this product.

I have the book version of this title and it is a great and incredibly useful book so I decided to buy the CD version to have it always available on my laptop and desktop. You can imagine my surprise and disappointment when I discovered that the software included in the CD is not compatible with Linux! This CD uses an obsolete piece of software (the install instruction for Windows refer to Windows 95!) that has no equivalent (up to my knowledge) in the Linux environment.

I wrote to the Costumer Service of AP but got no answer.

Hopefully they will get to their sense and do a decent version 2 of this product. By now it is pure junk.

I bought this software hoping that it would help me to find required mathematical formulas faster. At home on my powermac (OSX.1, OS9.2) I only see messed up windows. Furthermore, the formulas are unreadable, using an archaic font. Trying to save the day, I went to my linux machine at work reading "Your operating system, Linux 2.2.19-7.0.1, is not supported by this software. It appears that the software is only suitable for some SUN and SGI machines. It only appears to run properly on a windows machine. From an editor, who I remember, is one of the few persons finding errors in Knuth's TeX system, I expected much better.

This is the best and largest compilation of integrals and their solutions in existence. Whatever integral you are trying to solve, odds are someone else has already solved it and the answer is in this book. If you regularly come across integrals in your work or play (yes, IT IS FUN for some people), this book is an absolute must. Also a great reference for info on special functions, infinite series, jacobians, vectors, rules of integration, and more.

Doesn't replace every other reference--but is pretty darn complete. I love that this 7th edition comes with the CD containing the complete searchable text for no extra charge.

almost complete tables, as much as this is possible due to the shear amount of integrals. requires some getting used to in order to use the tables on the fly. nice to know that there is a web page which lists corrections to wrongly printed integrals, however I would prefer correct tables from the get go!

Essential book for everybody working in mathematical physics!
Previous version was not reliable since full of misprints.
Now, thanks also to the help of many readers, they have been corrected.
Surely some are left, but now this book can be considered a very reliable and useful tool.

This book is a great resource for anyone working in the field of science and technology. The organization of the content can be improved.