This book has evolved from an introductory course in mathematics given to engine,ering students at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne during the last few years. It represents the author's attempt to offer the engineering student, and the science student who is not majoring in a mathematical aspect of this subject, a broad and modern account of those parts of mathe- matics that are finding increasingly important application in the everyday development of his subject. Although this book does not seek to teach any of the many physical disciplines to which its results and methods may be applied, it nevertheless makes free use of them for purposes of illustration whenever this seems to be helpful. Every effort has been made to integrate the various chapters into as a single subject, and not as a collection of a description of mathematics seemingly unrelated topics. Thus, for example, matrices are not only intro- duced in an algebraic context, but they are also related in other chapters to change of variables in partial differentiation and to the study of simultaneous differential equations.
- ISBN10 0442306520
- ISBN13 9780442306526
- Publish Date July 1985 (first published September 1969)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 November 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
- Edition 3rd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 848
- Language English