Fundamentals of Scientific Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics) - Softcover

Owen, George E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486428087 ISBN 13: 9780486428086

Verlag: Dover Publications, 2012

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"For high school seniors or college freshmen with a background in algebra and trigonometry, the book should provide a good introduction to matrices, vector algebra, analytical geometry, and calculus. The work's solid modern mathematical content and its personality recommend consideration as a text or as stimulating supplementary reading". - American Scientist "The book is well written and the presentation throughout achieves clarity of thought with a minimum of computational effort". - Physics Today This rewarding text, beautifully illustrated by the author and written with superb clarity, offers undergraduate students a solid mathematical background and functions equally well for independent study. The five-part treatment begins with geometry, defining three-dimensional Euclidean space and its axioms, the coordinate system and coordinate transformation, and matrices. A review of vector algebra covers vector properties, multiplication, the resolution of a vector along a complete set of base vectors, and vector transformations. Topics in analytic geometry introduce loci, straight lines, the plane, two-dimensional curves, and the quadratic form. Functions are defined, as are intervals, along with multiplicity, the slope at a point, continuity, and areas. The concluding chapter, on differential and integral calculus, explains the concept of a limit, the derivative, the integral, differential equations, and applications of the calculus to kinematics.

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"The book is well written and the presentation throughout achieves clarity of thought with a minimum of computational effort."

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Rewarding undergraduate text, derived from an experimental program in teaching mathematics at the secondary-school level. This text provides a good introduction to geometry and matrices, vector algebra, analytic geometry, functions, and differential and integral calculus. "...solid modern mathematical content..." ― American Scientist. Over 200 figures. 1964 edition.

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• Verlag: Dover Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0486428087
• ISBN 13: 9780486428086
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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