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A Course in Mathematics for Students of Physics: Volume 1 Reprint Edition

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  • Series: Course in Mathematics for Students of Physics (Book 1)
  • Paperback: 424 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Reprint edition (August 30, 1991)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0521406498
  • ISBN-13: 978-0521406499
  • Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 0.9 x 9.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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By Kevin Roberge on August 4, 2003
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I'm going to mention the second volume almost exclusively. This is where the action is located. It is hard to find any equivalent treatment of circuit theory using algebraic topology. You should have some mathematics background or some patience and a stack of books on algebra and algebraic topology so you can understand what these authors write so poorly. However, while the text (vol.2) loses a star for being horribly written, it gains four stars for the amazing content. If you are patient you will see a side of circuits you have never dreamt of and then you will be led into the generalized (continuous) version which is electromagnetics.
If you are looking for some really accessible and really interesting mathematics on circuits and EM buy this book (or buy it used, I bought my hardcover for 10$) You might also find it useful to consult the appendix in Frankel's Geometry of Physics for comparison.
Have fun and keep in mind that the book is written by sadists, clever and intelligent, but sadists all the way!
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By A Customer on May 31, 2000
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The presentation and despriptions are every good. The progression sequence of the material is right on. I am both a mathematician and a physicist in that I develop "real-world" algorithms for computer models for atmospheric, marine and alluvial environments. I use the Series (both Vol. 1&2) to tutor physics students, most of which are good at plugging into established formulas but need work at developing a formula from scratch. There is an occasional error which can usually be figured out by reading-on if you know anything about math and physics; THIS BOOK is not written for a freshman year math/physics student. My only complaint with the book is that there is no solutions for any of the exercises at the ends of the chapters. Trivial as it may sound; when a student is trying to work through the problems, sometimes they need to know if they are right to move-on. Which means they have to call me, which after a while get's to be a pain.....my suggestion for the next edition is give the solutions for at least the odds or evens to help out the teachers...In spite of this discrepancy I still use the book and recommend it.....
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There are a number of reviews for this series, mixed good and bad, and rather than adding another, I just want to register agreement with most of the points on both sides; on the positive end, it's as far as I can tell unique in using electronic circuits as the primary motivation for the math, and provides a broad enough range of material that it should be fairly easy to pick up just these two volumes and be able to get a decent handle on the material.

On the negative side, while I haven't noticed the errors that were mentioned, the lack of solutions and occasional hand-wavery can leave one wondering -- but that's by no means a problem unique to this text. The standard point of comparison seems to be Frankel's Geometry of Physics, which is an excellent text, but I'd argue that it suffers from the same problem. This series doesn't go as deep into differential geometry as Frankel's, but offers more breadth.
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By A Customer on September 26, 1999
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This book gives a glimpse of the style the mathematics will be taught in schools say 30 years from now (despite the fact that actual results presented in it are all at least 70 years old - such is the inertia of the education). Despite the title, it should be strongly recommended to the students and teachers of pure mathematics. Reader that rated this book with one star obviously does not understand what mathematics is all about. The first chapter alone is worth more.
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This book covers a lot of material and presents the underlying concepts in a particularly useful manner. Silly digressions into self-indulgent proofs are pleasingly absent.
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