Mathematics for the Physical Sciences

$19.95

Publication Date: 21st April 2008

This exploration of the mathematical methods of physics takes a careful look at mathematical entities and explains their elementary properties. Its examples, drawn from the physical sciences, illustrate the application of concepts. The theory of distributions is introduced early and employed throughout the text.
Concise rather than comprehensive, this text states only essential results in its proofs. Topics include preliminary results in the integral calculus, elementary theory of distributions, convolution, Fourier series and the Fourier transform, the Laplace transform, wave and hea... Read More
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This exploration of the mathematical methods of physics takes a careful look at mathematical entities and explains their elementary properties. Its examples, drawn from the physical sciences, illustrate the application of concepts. The theory of distributions is introduced early and employed throughout the text.
Concise rather than comprehensive, this text states only essential results in its proofs. Topics include preliminary results in the integral calculus, elementary theory of distributions, convolution, Fourier series and the Fourier transform, the Laplace transform, wave and hea... Read More
Description
This exploration of the mathematical methods of physics takes a careful look at mathematical entities and explains their elementary properties. Its examples, drawn from the physical sciences, illustrate the application of concepts. The theory of distributions is introduced early and employed throughout the text.
Concise rather than comprehensive, this text states only essential results in its proofs. Topics include preliminary results in the integral calculus, elementary theory of distributions, convolution, Fourier series and the Fourier transform, the Laplace transform, wave and heat conduction equations, the gamma function, and Bessel functions. Prerequisites include a familiarity with linear algebra and functions of a complex variable.

Reprint of the Hermann, Paris, and Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts, 1966 edition.
Details
  • Price: $19.95
  • Pages: 368
  • Publisher: Dover Publications
  • Imprint: Dover Publications
  • Series: Dover Books on Mathematics
  • Publication Date: 21st April 2008
  • Trim Size: 6.5 x 9.25 in
  • ISBN: 9780486466620
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    MATHEMATICS / Reference
Table of Contents
Preface
I. Preliminary results in the integral calculus: series and integrals
II. Elementary theory of distributions
III. Convolution
IV. Fourier series
V. The Fourier transform
VI. The LaPlace transform
VII. The wave and heat conduction equations
VIII. The Gamma function
IX. Bessel functions
This exploration of the mathematical methods of physics takes a careful look at mathematical entities and explains their elementary properties. Its examples, drawn from the physical sciences, illustrate the application of concepts. The theory of distributions is introduced early and employed throughout the text.
Concise rather than comprehensive, this text states only essential results in its proofs. Topics include preliminary results in the integral calculus, elementary theory of distributions, convolution, Fourier series and the Fourier transform, the Laplace transform, wave and heat conduction equations, the gamma function, and Bessel functions. Prerequisites include a familiarity with linear algebra and functions of a complex variable.

Reprint of the Hermann, Paris, and Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts, 1966 edition.
  • Price: $19.95
  • Pages: 368
  • Publisher: Dover Publications
  • Imprint: Dover Publications
  • Series: Dover Books on Mathematics
  • Publication Date: 21st April 2008
  • Trim Size: 6.5 x 9.25 in
  • ISBN: 9780486466620
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    MATHEMATICS / Reference
Preface
I. Preliminary results in the integral calculus: series and integrals
II. Elementary theory of distributions
III. Convolution
IV. Fourier series
V. The Fourier transform
VI. The LaPlace transform
VII. The wave and heat conduction equations
VIII. The Gamma function
IX. Bessel functions