Product Description

The Chemistry Maths Book provides a complete course companion suitable for students at all levels. All the most useful and important topics are covered, with numerous examples of applications in chemistry and the physical sciences. Taking a clear, straightforward approach, the book develops ideas in a logical, coherent way, allowing students progressively to build a thorough working understanding of the subject. Topics are organized into three parts: algebra, calculus, differential equations, and expansions in series; vectors, determinants and matrices; and numerical analysis and statistics. The extensive use of examples illustrates every important concept and method in the text, and are used to demonstrate applications of the mathematics in chemistry and several basic concepts in physics. The exercises at the end of each chapter, are an essential element of the development of the subject, and have been designed to give students a working understanding of the material in the text. Online Resource Centre: The Online Resource Centre features the following resources: - Figures from the book in electronic format, ready to download - Full worked solutions to all end of chapter exercises

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #231949 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 576 pages

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.