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Summary: NOT a textbook in the classical sense
Review: The popular recommended 'text book' that this is, it really takes on a task too large to condense into some 1100 pages. You just can't do that. Okay, if you're great at Math and want to revise yuor concepts of have a quick reference, this is a decent book. Well, much better than decent. BUT, and here's what matters, if you want to UNDERSTAND what engineering math is about, you absolutely have to get text books for each of the subjects Kreyszig deals with: Gilbert Strang's Linear Algebra, DiPrima/Boyce for ODE and so on...this book won't get you there. Having said that, no book can do that!
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Summary: Author fails to explain clearly
Review: This is a fantastic book for those of you who have done engineering math before. If you ever forgot certain concepts, this would be a great book to refer. It is not recommended for first year college students.
The examples are too few and some of them skipped quite a few steps. If your math is not strong, you will be frustrated in no time trying to work the missing steps. The concepts explained are not very clear.
After using this book for my coursework for a year, I came to the conclusion that to really grasp the concepts, I have to solve many problems. Why? Because the author is not good at explaining the concepts!
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Summary: Horrible excuse for an Engineering Analysis book
Review: Material is poorly presented, examples are as vague as possible and the practice problems aren't even close to relevant to the material discussed. Please, whatever you do, DON'T buy this book. You'll be wasting alot of money on a paper weight. This book will make you question why you ever wanted to get into Engineering!
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Summary: Generally decent, never excellent
Review: I recognize that this is the "bible" for engineering math, but I never found it stellar for any single topic. Its treatment of simple topics such as first and second order ODEs and linear algebra was certainly satisfactory, but when more advanced topics are presented there is simply too little coverage. I found it particularly weak in the coverage of PDEs and series solutions of differential equations.In general a simple presentation of the material is made, and a simple example is given, but you never understand the guts of the process, so when a slightly more complex problem arises you don't know quite how to proceed. The simple example will work out magically that X and Y converge instantly, but then you try to work a problem where X or Y are different and you were never given enough information as to determine which one is the driving part of the process. Tolerable text, and I understand why its used given its broad scope, but I second the "jack of all trades, master of none" review. You're better off buying three texts that actually present the material well than one that does it poorly.
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Summary: Worthless
Review: This is one of the worst books I have ever seen on engineering mathematics. I tried to refer to it numerous times during my M.E. Masters program and found it worthless every time. There HAS to be better books on engineering mathematics - HAS to be.
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