Product Description

This important new edition provides a complete course for first year Engineering Mathematics, which is taught to most engineering students including mechanical, civil, electrical, electronics, systems, aeronautical and chemical engineers.   Available with this text will be a CD-based testing and assessment package, with interactive multi-choice, multi-answer and hot-spot questions that allow students to test their understanding of the key topics.  Ideal for reinforcing learning during the course or pre-examination revision, all questions will provide detailed student feedback on-screen, and also direct students to the relevant section or page in the text for further study. A networkable version of the CD for use in diagnostic assessment is also available for purchase by university departments.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #135433 in Books
• Published on: 2000-12-12
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 978 pages

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.