title: Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering: A Comprehensive Guide
author: K. F. Riley
description: From reviews of previous editions: '...a great scientific textbook. It is a tour de force ... to write mathematical sections that are both complete and at an appropriate academic level. The authors have clearly succeeded in this challenge, making this a remarkable pedagogical book ... The choice of exercises is excellent and possibly the best feature of the book. In summary, this textbook is a great reference at undergraduate levels, particularly for those who like to teach or learn using lots of examples and exercises.' R. Botet, European Journal of Physics<br /><br />'... the book provides scientists who need to use the tool of mathematics for practical purposes with a single, comprehensive book. I recommend this book not only to students in physics and engineering sciences, but also to students in other fields of natural sciences.' P. Steward, Optik<br /><br />'... suitable as a textbook for undergraduate use ... this is a book that in view of its content and its modest softcover price, will find its way on to many bookshelves.' Nigel Steele, The Times Higher Education Supplement<br /><br />'Riley et al. has clear, thorough and straightforward explanations of the subjects treated. It rigorously adopts a three-stage approach throughout the book: first a heuristic, intuitive introduction, then a formal treatment, and finally one or two examples. This consistent presentation, the layout, and the print quality make the book most attractive ... and value for money. It contains a thousand pages, there are plenty of exercises with each chapter.' J. M. Thijssen, European Journal of Physics<br /><br />This is a valuable book with great potential use in present-day university physics courses. Furthermore, the book will be useful for graduate too, and researchers will find it useful for looking up material which they have forgotten since their undergraduate days.' J. M. Thijssen, European Journal of Physics<br /><br />'This textbook is a well-written, modern, comprehensive, and complete collection of topics in mathematical methods ranging from a review of differential and integral calculus to group and representation theory, probability, the calculus of variations, and tensors.' Science Books and Films<br /><br />'This is a very comprehensive textbook suitable for most students enrolling on undergraduate degree courses in engineering. It contains 31 stand-alone chapters of mathematical methods which enable the students to understand the principles of the basic mathematical techniques and the authors have produced a clear, thorough and straightforward explanation of each subject. ... finding a single textbook which covers the engineering student's need throughout their entire course is by no means an easy task. I believe the authors have achieved it ... complete fully worked solutions ... which I think is a useful asset for both students and lecturers.' Civil Engineering<br /><br />' ... this highly acclaimed undergraduate textbook is suitable for teaching all the mathematics ever likely to be needed for an undergraduate course in any of the physical sciences. As well as lucid descriptions of all the topics covered and many worked examples, it contains more than 800 exercises.' L'enseignement mathematique
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  The pur-pose of this handbook is to supply a collection of mathematical formulas and 
  tables which will prove to be valuable to students and research workers in the fields of 
  mathematics, physics, engineering and other sciences. 
  TO accomplish this, tare has been 
  taken to include those formulas and tables which are most likely to be needed in practice 
  rather than highly specialized results which are rarely used. 
  Every effort has been made 
  to present results concisely as well as precisely SO that they may be referred to with a maxi- 
  mum of ease as well as confidence. 
  Topics covered range from elementary to advanced. 
  Elementary topics include those 
  from algebra, geometry, trigonometry, analytic geometry and calculus. 
  Advanced topics 
  include those from differential equations, vector analysis, Fourier series, gamma and beta 
  functions, Bessel and Legendre functions, Fourier and Laplace transforms, elliptic functions 
  and various other special functions of importance. 
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