Mathematical Methods for Physicists and Engineers: Second Corrected Edition (Paperback)

by Royal Eugene Collins (Author) "Here we present a brief but essentially complete presentation of those elements of vector calculus essential for the physicist or engineer..." (more)
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Practical, readable volume offers advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students the essential mathematical tools required for thorough comprehension of their disciplines. Topics cover elementary vector calculus, special functions of mathematical physics, calculus of variations, curve fitting and numerical approximation methods, and much more. Rather than aiming at complete mastery of these complicated subjects, the text focuses on the fundamental applied mathematics needed by students to deal with physics and engineering problems. An excellent self-contained study resource. 1968 ed.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications; 2 Una Sub edition (January 29, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486402290
• ISBN-13: 978-0486402291
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #456,674 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A very helpful book, May 13, 2000

By	Damián Federico Abasto (Oberá, Misiones Argentina) - See all my reviews

This book presents to the lector in a comprehensive way the necesary mathematical methods needed by any physicist, engineer or student. It includes themes such as elementary vector calculus, matrix algebra and transformations, a very extensive study of boundary value problems, elementary applicationsof the Laplace Tansform, Integral Transforms, Variation and Perturbation Methods, Elements of Probability Theory, among others. Each point is well exposed, with many explamples and problems (although it doesn't provide the answers). A defect may be the fact that some points (although few) are not fully developed, and in some cases one will probably have to read a more basic-level book on those points (As a freshman, it happened to me that to understand chapters 7 and 8, about functions of a comples variable and calculus of residues, I had to read an introductory book on complex variable). It's develop of many math topics and it's application to Physics and Engineering and the independance of many chapters from the others, makes this book a very helpful one.