Product Description

The Chemistry Maths Book is a comprehensive textbook of mathematics for undergraduate students of chemistry. Such students often find themselves unprepared and ill-equipped to deal with the mathematical content of their chemistry courses. Textbooks designed to overcome this problem have so far been too basic for complete undergraduate courses and have been unpopular with students. However this modern textbook provides a complete and up-to-date course companion suitable for all levels of undergraduate chemistry courses. All the most useful and important topics are covered with numerous examples of applications in chemistry and some in physics. The subject is developed in a logical and consistent way with few assumptions of prior knowledge of mathematics. This text is sure to become a widely adopted text and will be highly recommended for all chemistry courses.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #446810 in Books
• Published on: 1996-04-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 560 pages

Review
"Contains all the mathematical methods that 99% of chemists would need. Designed as a text for an actual Maths for Chemists course, it is laid out in a logical progression from simple (decimals, algebra, and functions) to the more complicated but no less important (matrix algebra, differential equations, and matrix eigenvalue problems). It seems well suited both for its stated purpose and as a 'brush-up' book for undergraduates, graduate students, and others . . . . I am impressed with this book. I am sure that it will remain open on my desk and will become well worn in short order." --C. Michael McCallum in Journal of Chemical Education
"An excellent quick reference. . . .Unlike most quick references of its kind, it also contains historical footnotes that add depth to its overall educational value. . . .Clearly written with excellent diagrams."--Choice

Customer Reviews

This book conveys the superb lecturing style of the author
Dr. Erich Steiner was my physical chemistry lecturer and responsible for teaching mathematics in the Dept. of Chemistry at the University of Exeter while I was doing my undergraduate degree. Having A-level mathematics, I could skip the first few chapters and jump straight into the more advanced topics. These were a fantastic blend of the fundamental maths coupled to real life chemical example. For my contemporaries who only had GCSE maths, the former chapters brought them up to speed with ease and lack of trepidation. This book remains by my desk for frequent reference on all the maths I have required to date.

This book is thoroughly recommended.

also a great help for the general reader
I am not really a member of the target audience (I am a classicist turned novelist, not a chemist), but I have been an admirer of the book for years and find it a source of great interest and enjoyment. The presentation is superb (putting to shame the atrocious layout of most books on mathematics), a generous selection of topics is included, the explanations are lucid, the examples enlightening. Few books on mathematics do as much to instil in the reader the cheering conviction of having a pronounced aptitude for the subject.

It is very dismal for the general reader to be confined to books on science aimed at the general reader - i.e. books which presuppose no mathematical knowledge. The Chemistry Maths Book opens up a much wider range of material (not just on chemistry), as well as having interest in its own right. I assume the chemistry undergraduates for whom it is primarily intended will find it helpful, but it deserves a much wider audience.

Superb full of witty insights and excellent teaching
This book teaches the fundamentals of maths for chemistry students from a low level (GCSE grade and below) to more advanced material suitable for a maths degree course.

Topical insights into the history of mathematics are included in the book. These anecdotes serve to bring alive the teaching of maths.

I used this textbook all the way through my chemistry 1st and 2nd year. Even now I use it as a valuable reference to the finer points of maths as I find it much easier to pick up than other maths text books.

Definitely recommended reading for any chemistry, physics or engineering undergraduate.