Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering Third Edition Paperback Set

by Ken F. Riley , Mike P. Hobson , Stephen J. Bence

• ISBN13: 9780521683395
• ISBN10: 0521683394
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 2006-08-21
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

This set consists of the third edition of this highly acclaimed undergraduate textbook and its solutions manual containing complete worked solutions to half of the problems. Suitable for teaching all the mathematics for an undergraduate course in any of the physical sciences, the text provides lucid descriptions of all the topics, many worked examples, and over 800 exercises. New stand-alone chapters give a systematic account of the 'special functions' of physical science, cover an extended range of practical applications of complex variables, and give an introduction to quantum operators. Further tabulations, of relevance in statistics and numerical integration, have been added. In this edition, the remaining exercises have no hints, answers or worked solutions and can be used for unaided homework; full solutions are available to instructors on a password-protected web site, www.cambridge.org/9780521679718.

Table of Contents

Prefaces

1. Preliminary algebra

2. Preliminary calculus

3. Complex numbers and hyperbolic functions

4. Series and limits

5. Partial differentiation

6. Multiple integrals

7. Vector algebra

8. Matrices and vector spaces

9. Normal modes

10. Vector calculus

11. Line, surface and volume integrals

12. Fourier series

13. Integral transforms

14. First-order ordinary differential equations

15. Higher-order ordinary differential equations

16. Series solutions of ordinary differential equations

17. Eigenfunction methods for differential equations

18. Special functions

19. Quantum operators

20. Partial differential equations: general and particular

21. Partial differential equations: separation of variables

22. Calculus of variations

23. Integral equations

24. Complex variables

25. Application of complex variables

26. Tensors

27. Numerical methods

28. Group theory

29. Representation theory

30. Probability

31. Statistics

Index.