Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers

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University Science Books, 2003 - Mathematics - 1161 pages
"Intended for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in chemistry, physics, math and engineering, this book will also become a must-have for the personal library of all advanced students in the physical sciences. Comprised of more than 2000 problems and 700 worked examples that detail every single step, this text is exceptionally well adapted for self study as well as for course use."--From publisher description.
 

Contents

Functions of a Single Variable
1
Brook Taylor and Colin Maclaurin
62
Infinite Series
63
Leonhard Euler
114
Functions Defined As Integrals
115
William Hamilton
158
Complex Numbers and Complex Functions
159
The Geometric Interpretation of the Complex Numbers
189
Henri Poincaré
624
Qualitative Methods for Nonlinear Differential Equations
625
CharlesFrançois Sturm and Joseph Liouville
666
Orthogonal Polynomials and SturmLiouville Problems
667
Transfinite Numbers
711
Fourier Series
713
Karl Weierstrass
745
Partial Differential Equations
747

Vectors
191
The Concept of Fractal Dimension
229
Functions of Several Variables
231
George Stokes and George Green
300
Vector Calculus
301
Carl Jacobi
348
Curvilinear Coordinates
349
Carl Friedrich Gauss
396
Linear Algebra and Vector Spaces
397
Arthur Cayley and James Joseph Sylvester
454
Matrices and Eigenvalue Problems
455
Jacob Bernoulli
514
Ordinary Differential Equations
515
The Weierstrass Function
573
Series Solutions of Differential Equations
575
Why No Women Mathematicians?
813
Integral Transforms
815
Augustin Louis Cauchy and Bernhard Riemann
868
Theory
869
Harry Nyquist and Nikolai Joukowski
920
Applications
921
Johann Bernoulli
984
Calculus of Variations
985
Siméon Denis Poisson and Andrei A Markov
1022
Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
1023
Karl Pearson and Ronald A Fisher
1074
Mathematical Statistics
1075
Answers to Selected Problems
1123
Illustration Credits
1154
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