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Title: An oversized APPENDIX rather than a useful text!
Review: This book was used as a text for an advanced undergraduate/1st year graduate course. Unfortunately, this work is becoming the classic text for such courses. The text is too concise to be useful for most students at this level. However, it may serve as a good reference book for those who have already learned the material. Good luck to those trying to learn it for the first time! The book is loaded with oversimplified examples of tough concepts and then leaves the difficult problems AS AN EXERCISE FOR THE READER. You will definitely need a supplemental text or two! Try Mathematical Physics by Eugene Butkov for a more thorough treatment of the concepts.
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