Title: Useless
Review: I bought this book because I wanted to learn how to solve nonlinear problems numerically (after all, I am a practicing engineer, and I need numerical results). Instead, the book offers a myriad of MACSYMA generated closed form solutions -some half a page long, to specific problems. Where is the general methodology? How about identifying the symbols used in the equations, out of courtesy to the reader? Why are the references 20 pages long at the end of each chapter? Couldn't they have been deferred to the end of the book, and been more concise?Bottom line: very disappointing and useless; I wasted my money.
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