Product Description

A rigorous, applications-focused introduction to the field of Engineering Mathematics. Suitable for a first year course in the subject area, the book presents the key mathematical concepts that engineers will be expected to know. The applications focus allows the student to see the mathematics in action and helps to contextualise what they are actually learning. As such, it is also well suited to maths courses within the physical sciences and applied mathematics. Incorporates many exercises throughout the chapters so students can reinforce their learning. This edition will be accompanied by online bridging chapters – refresher units in core subjects to bring students up to speed with what they’ll need to know before taking the engineering mathematics course.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #108355 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 1128 pages

From the Back Cover

This book provides a complete course for first-year engineering mathematics. Whichever field of engineering you are studying, you will be most likely to require knowledge of the mathematics presented in this textbook. Taking a thorough approach, the authors put the concepts into an engineering context, so you can understand the relevance of mathematical techniques presented and gain a fuller appreciation of how to draw upon them throughout your studies.

Key features

• Comprehensive coverage of first-year engineering mathematics
• Fully worked examples and exercises provide relevance and reinforce the role of mathematics in the various branches of engineering

§         Excellent coverage of engineering applications

New to this edition

• More than 100 new worked examples

• Over 200 new exercises to help monitor progress with your learning and provide a more progressive level of difficulty
• Online ‘refresher units' covering topics you should have encountered at school but may not have used for some time

§         MATLAB and MAPLE fully integrated, showing you how these powerful tools can be used to support your work in mathematics

Professor Glyn James is Emeritus Professor within the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Coventry University, having previously been Dean of the School of Mathematical and Information Science.

As in previous editions he has drawn upon the knowledge and experience of his co-authors to provide an excellent revision of the book.

About the Author
Professor Glyn James is based at Coventry University.David Burley was formerly at the University of Sheffield.Professor Phil Dyke is based at the University of Plymouth.John Searl is based at the University of Edinburgh.Dick Clements is based at the University of Bristol.Jerry Wright is based at AT&T Laboratories, Florham Park, NJ

Customer Reviews

Poorly presented and poor explanations
I was recommended by my lecturers to buy this book for my maths module in the first year of my physics degree. I found that the book is not intuitive, has an ugly appearence (which doesnt motivate the reader to work at the subject) and, most importantly, explains the methods in question very poorly. As an example, I spent three hours trying to figure out how the book had worked through an integration question, only to find later that the problem had arisen simply because the book had skipped an important step, that wasn't at all obvious. This was the day before an exam to really rub salt in the wound.

I found that the book makes a song and dance of obvious ideas, and simply skims over the more complicated steps in new ideas.

All in all, I have hardly ever been able to make good use of this book. Bear in mind, however, that mine is a physics degree, not a maths or engineering degree, but I suspect the problems would be no different in those degrees also.

A Very very Poor Book
I use Mathematics every single day in by job, and have done since I started university in October of 1992. This book was forced upon us as a text book for the course, since it was co-written by some of our lecturers.

This book is absolutely awful. I have tried and tried to find an answer in this book for problems regularly over the last 12 or so years. Not once has the book proved useful. It is poorly written, with obscure examples. Especially in the 'pure' maths sections, if you are looking for an example in how to perform a certain kind of operation, there is almost never a good example of how to do it.

I have bought many other maths books, and luckily passed my maths courses using a combination of Stroud, Bostock and Chandler (Modular Mathematics Series), and Anton and Rorres (Elementary Linear Algebra). Almost everything you can want is in these other books. Don't waste your money. Search for these other authors.

There are better books out there.
This book as promised goes right back to first principles. Which is good. Unfortunatly is does it in langage that you need a degree to understand. Which is bad. I would recomend Engineering Maths by Stroud. However if you can understand the language it would probably be a very good book.