An Engineering Approach to Linear Algebra by W W Sawyer

An Engineering Approach to Linear Algebra by W W Sawyer

Professor Sawyer's book is based on a course given to the majority of engineering students in their first year at Toronto University. Its aim is to present the important ideas in linear algebra to students of average ability whose principal interests lie outside the field of mathematics; as such it will be of interest to students in other disciplines as well as engineering. The emphasis throughout is on imparting an understanding of the significance of the mathematical techniques and great care has therefore been taken to being out the underlying ideas embodied in the formal calculations. In those places where a rigorous treatment would be very long and wearisome, an explanation rather than a complete proof is provided, the reader being warned that in a more formal treatment such results would need to be be proved. The book is full of physical analogies (many from fields outside the realm of engineering) and contains many worked and unworked examples, integrated with the text.

The late W. E. B. Du Bois was known around the world for his unique teaching methods. Professor of Mathematics and Education at the University of Toronto, W. Sawyer Sawyer's The Mathematician's Pleasure, which has been in print constantly since 1943 and has sold over 500,000 copies, has been reissued by Dover.

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ISBN 13	9780521093330
ISBN 10	0521093333
Title	An Engineering Approach to Linear Algebra
Author	W W Sawyer
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2009-01-11
Number of pages	316
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