Description
“A fine example of how to present ‘classical’ physical mathematics.” — American Scientist
Written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, this volume provides a thorough background in the mathematics needed to understand today’s more advanced topics in physics and engineering. Without sacrificing rigor, the authors develop the theoretical material at length, in a highly readable, and, wherever possible, in an intuitive manner. Each abstract idea is accompanied by a very simple, concrete example, showing the student that the abstraction is merely a generalization from easily understood specific cases. The notation used is always that of physicists. The more specialized subjects, treated as simply as possible, appear in small print; thus, it is easy to omit them entirely or to assign them to the more ambitious student.
Among the topics covered are the theory of analytic functions, linear vector spaces and linear operators, orthogonal expansions (including Fourier series and transforms), theory of distributions, ordinary and partial differential equations and special functions: series solutions, Green’s functions, eigenvalue problems, integral representations.
“An outstandingly complete collection of mathematical material of wide application in physics . . . invaluable to the reader intent on increasing his knowledge of the mathematical theories and techniques underlying physics.” — Applied Optics
Cumple con los requisitos para cualquier estudiante de ciencias pero utiliza la notación de bracket y no de flechas para vectores
Uso em revisão de matemática aplicada à física e astrofísica.
Muy buen texto para los semestres formativos de la licenciatura en física.
nice book.
I am a Mathematics PG, and I wish to learn topics like Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory.
Such texts prove to be way too valuable for a brief yet, to the point material.
Reason for 4 stars as it does not do justice to PDE at all.
Apart from that, it is a good book to have in your collection.