Description
Now in its 7th edition, Mathematical Methods for Physicists continues to provide all the mathematical methods that aspiring scientists and engineers are likely to encounter as students and beginning researchers. This bestselling text provides mathematical relations and their proofs essential to the study of physics and related fields. While retaining the key features of the 6th edition, the new edition provides a more careful balance of explanation, theory, and examples. Taking a problem-solving-skills approach to incorporating theorems with applications, the book’s improved focus will help students succeed throughout their academic careers and well into their professions. Some notable enhancements include more refined and focused content in important topics, improved organization, updated notations, extensive explanations and intuitive exercise sets, a wider range of problem solutions, improvement in the placement, and a wider range of difficulty of exercises.Revised and updated version of the leading text in mathematical physicsFocuses on problem-solving skills and active learning, offering numerous chapter problemsClearly identified definitions, theorems, and proofs promote clarity and understanding New to this edition: Improved modular chaptersNew up-to-date examplesMore intuitive explanations
Very good book.value for money
Used Arfken’s 3rd edition text almost 40 years ago in grad school. Decided to replace my old falling apart textbook. This newer 7th edition has preliminary and matrix sections in the beginning which is helpful. Like the earlier editions, the topics are in as good order as possible.
This is what I had needed the final years in high school and after that
Best book on mathematical physics ever.
Whether you need it as a reference (tho, online works just as well) or a book to work through to learn or improve skill sets this book is great. It does present some issues if you’re only using it as a text as sometimes it’s referring to things stated previously and you have to hunt down what the authors are talking about. I had to use this for class, but getting more use out of it as a reference that sits at my desk