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Title: A decent reference, mostly for its large glossy text
Review: This book is pretty encyclopedic, and is quite easy to look at, but please to not attempt to actually LEARN from this book. Some of the sections are good, but many are shamefully terrible, such as the treatment of complex variables or Green's functions. Overall, the book just seems sloppily thrown together. The quick-reference equations in the front and back, for instance, are conspicuously mis-indented and mis-aligned. Really a shame, because his book has a lot of potential. As an alternative, I would recommend the cheap paperback by Dennery, which, though slightly less comprehensive, is much more consistent.
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