Advanced Engineering Mathematics

Rating:
Summary: Good Collection of Solved Problems
Review: If you want a good basic collection of problems and your math book does not have solutions, this is a good place for you to start.

I wish more US textbooks published the worked solutions to all of their problems. While academic types tend to disagree with this approach saying that it diminishes the student's ability to reason, I must take exception to this.

Using good worked examples allows a math "consumer" (such as an undergraduate engineer) a way to build his/her confidence.

Those of us working in industry do not need proofs or generic problems picked for the benefit of the teacher (with "easy" numbers or solutions that fit easily into a template). Proofs are for applied mathematicians and those working in the more theoretical areas of engineering (or doing PHD work). We need good tools and mathematics (when intelligently applied) can help us.

This book tends to demystify some of the more arcane subjects for the reader.