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Summary: Great, but you had better already have a strong background
Review: This book is written in as easy to understand a language as any math book I've used thus far (and I've used many) It has great emphisis on mathematical modeling. Still, know full well, before spending a lot of money, that this is not for anyone who hasn't already had a great deal of grounding in math or isn't planning to go well beyond any engineering requirements.Another book that will let you show off your mathematical skills, and I think is the greatest, is 'Transport Phenomenea' by Byron Bird.
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Summary: Power math for the Engineering Elite
Review: This book is readily accessible to the student who has a knowledge of elementary integral calculus... ODE, PDE, transforms, techniques of analysis, linear algebra, numerical methods, it's all in there. One-stop math shopping. And unless you're a railroad engineer, topics you'll be dealing with from now till retirement. It's clearly written with sufficient examples; it is my favorite engineering math text/reference.
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Summary: The Agony and the Agony
Review: Do you know what a vector space is? How about the Convolution theorem? Good, because Kreysig expects you to, and if you don't, well, don't expect any sympathy. What's that you want? A well explained, clear sample problem? Too bad. All you get is a proof of a method that is too difficult to understand anyway. If you're not Gauss or at least Feynmann, find another book.
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Summary: `Resnick and Halliday' of Mathematics !
Review: The book is one of the most important reference for a `good' mathematician/engineer, clearly indicating the style and status of the book. It's not for someone who just want to pass another mid-term, but for the inquisitive engineer/ mathematician who wants to understand the depth of his field related to Maths !
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Summary: Text offers overly regimented but still excellent content
Review: The textbook possesses exceptional content. Nevertheless, the material is presented in an overly structured manner that inhibits more intuitive and independent thought. In my calculus class at the University of Pennsylvania, sycophants seemed to take a little too much of a delight in this book.
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Summary: Excellent book for Electrical Engineers
Review: This book is a fundamental to understand the theor y of Laplace transforms and other transform techniques which is a basis of all modern theories on Digital Signal Processing. This books is still handy compared to one in school I used in 1981!
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Summary: best engineering math text around
Review: The perfect student math resource. This book has helped me with a wide range of papers accross three years of my degreee. It is brilliant.
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Summary: Excellent book written with thorough mathematical rigour
Review: This is an excellent book for people who like formal treatment of mathematics used in engineering and science. I read this book about 10 years back, back then it was in its 4edition, when I was doing my under graduation in Chemical Engineering. I found it extremely helpful then. Now, I develop computer programs, I still find this book extremely useful. I think, adding a few section on queueing theory will make this book even better a referece.
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Summary: Good Reference Guide
Review: This book does provide students, who have taken a first course in differential equations, a good look at Fourier Analysis, Boundary Value Problems, and partial differential equations; however, you might wish to obtain a working knowledge of linear algebra before using this book for the before-mentioned reasons - the chapters dealing with linear algebra (six and seven) are awesome for review, but horrible for the beginning student.
Other than that, the book is a good resource when it comes to the review chapters on ordinary differential equations, multivariable calculus, probability, etc...
This is a recommended book for the engineer who likes to review math on those boring summer days...
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Summary: To Many Nice Figures and So Little Explanation.
Review: When I started using this textbook for a graduate level engineering mathematics I thought I would "see the light" and had finally come across an author that would help me understand advanced mathematics and its application to real-world problems. Needless to say I was let down. Kreysig offers no explanation for many new and complex concepts and often leaves out helpful background (theory/proofs) necessary to have a full undestanding and skill level necessary to apply the concepts. A case in point is his handling of the Legendre Transforms/Polynomials and Sturm-Liouville Theory. Did I mention that I think it is a bad idea to cover matrices and linear algebra in differnt chapters of the book When I took ODE/PDE in undergraduate we used the text, Advanced Engineering mathematics by O'neil and at the time I thought this book was difficult and confusing. Althought it was not filled with color figures and graphs it contained many proofs and theorems to explain the concepts. I'm starting to use this book as a reference for those concepts that aren't covered thoroughly enough by Kreysig and now appreciate the O'Neil book more and more everyday.
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