All You Wanted to Know about Mathematics but Were Afraid to Ask: Mathematics for Science Students, Volume 2

by Louis Lyons

This is an excellent tool kit for solving the mathematical problems encountered by undergraduates in physics and engineering. This second book in a two volume work introduces integral and differential calculus, waves, matrices, and eigenvectors. All mathematics needed for an introductory course in the physical sciences is included. The emphasis is on learning through understanding real examples, showing mathematics as a tool for understanding physical systems and their behavior, so that the student feels at home with real mathematical problems. Dr. Lyons brings a wealth of teaching experience to this refreshing textbook on the fundamentals of mathematics for physics and engineering.

Genres: Mathematics, Physics

400 pages, Paperback

First published April 30, 1998

Reviews

[Sanar Othman · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the downhills of academic life is that time management is exhaustively crucial. you have to pace through and get to the specific point, sometimes without knowing what is going on around the bubble you're focused on.
Books like these are very helpful but at the meantime they do something to me (and that only applies to me and people like me), there are soooo many interesting topics in such books and i feel like I'm a soldier in a room full of ammo and artillery equipment and in order to fight better and stronger, I need to take everything in the storage room which is, unfortunately, impossible. I liked this book, it restored some confidence in me while I used it for learning some maths that is needed for my lectures. I will somehow come back to it in case of need! Although I have just seen another book which is similar and I'm going to use the latter for now. May the soldier carry as many as he can but he has to understand he can't take it all!