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Summary: It meets a need
Review: It does what it promises: deliver the usual tables that meet basic mathematical needs. Trig, logs, exponents, and some miscellany (a little quaint in the era of calculators). I got it as a home reference for integrals, and it's good enough to get me in the right direction. Given it's intended range, I fault it only for weakness in stats and probability.Hey, the price is right. It's nothing special, but not all of my needs are special. For basic math stuff, this may be the book to get if you can't afford the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.
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Summary: A friendly monster
Review: It has 1011 pages, not including index, and it runs all the way from algebra (special products, partial fractions, matrices), to elementary analysis, geometry, trig, logarithms, hyperbolics, series, derivatives, integrals, differential equations, special functions, and more than 300 pages dedicated to applied science data: physiscs, chemistry, biology. One of the things I really liked about this book is that it has a table with all the prime numbers from 1 to 100,000. All you have to do is look for the suspect! You forgot an obscure solid volume formula? It's here. Dealing with differential equations? They are listed here by kind (Exact, Bernoulli's, Reducible, etc), faced with their method of solution. I am not an engineering major, but this was too much of a temptation. Not everything is here, of course: your brain is still where you left it, but this handbook is a very good ally.
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Summary: Get CRC or Jeffrey's instead
Review: No offense but this is probably the most useless book I ever bought. I own CRC and Jeffrey's reference books and have used them so much the binding is disintergrating. In the meantime Ogden and Fogiel's book hasn't moved from my shelf. It's poorly indexed, and the formulas are often ill-phrased. Please, if you are a scientist or an engineer, don't buy this book. For the future, for the children, get a better reference book
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Summary: too many typos
Review: There are so many typos and errors in the book that I can no longer trust anything I look up in this book. I thought it deserved two stars just for the price.
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Summary: A professional engineer's MUST have!!!
Review: This is one of the best reference books in my library. It's a thick one, but I can't imagine any project without taking "Big Red" with me. All those formulas and relations one usually ends up rummaging through old college texts for and a handy springboard for functions one may not have encountered before. For college students this book is a MUST. Especially in those upper division courses (can you say "fourier transform"? ). Definitely worth the investment.
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