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All You Wanted to Know about Mathematics but Were Afraid to Ask Louis Lyons (University of Oxford)

All You Wanted to Know about Mathematics but Were Afraid to Ask By Louis Lyons (University of Oxford)

All You Wanted to Know about Mathematics but Were Afraid to Ask by Louis Lyons (University of Oxford)


Summary

This 1998 book is an excellent toolkit for solving the mathematical problems encountered in foundation courses in physics and engineering. Helps turn dry theory into working systems. A mathematical methods course that gets results through teaching applications to a variety of real problems.

All You Wanted to Know about Mathematics but Were Afraid to Ask Summary

All You Wanted to Know about Mathematics but Were Afraid to Ask: Mathematics for Science Students by Louis Lyons (University of Oxford)

This book, first published in 1998, is the second in a two volume work and introduces integral and differential calculus, waves, matrices, and eigenvectors for undergraduates in physics and engineering. Together, the two volumes cover all the mathematics needed for an introductory course in the physical sciences. The approach taken is to learn through understanding real examples, showing mathematics as a tool for understanding physical systems and their behaviour. The aim is to make the student feel at home with real problems by creating a toolkit through a wide range of examples. The traditional approach of teaching theory for its own sake is not used in this course. Dr. Lyons brings a wealth of teaching experience to this refreshing textbook on the fundamentals of mathematics for physics and engineering.

All You Wanted to Know about Mathematics but Were Afraid to Ask Reviews

'... a compendium of explanations of applications of mathematics in physics, designed to be dipped into and to inspire thought ... once the book is opened, be warned, you are likely to be hooked ...'. Nigel Steele, The Times Higher Eduction Supplement

Table of Contents

Chapter titles for volume 1; Preface; 9. Integrals; 10. Vector operators; 11. Partial differential equations; 12. Fourier series; 13. Normal modes; 14. Waves; 15. Matrices; 16. Eigenvectors and eigenvalues; Appendix; Index.

Additional information

GOR004870009
9780521436014
052143601X
All You Wanted to Know about Mathematics but Were Afraid to Ask: Mathematics for Science Students by Louis Lyons (University of Oxford)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
19980430
400
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