Review5 of Mathematics of Physics and Engineering Authors: Edward K. Blum and Sergey V. Lototsky Published by World Scienti c $75, Hardcover, 482 pages Review by Frederic Green (fgreen@black.clarku.edu) Overview This text is designed for a course typically given in the junior or senior year, addressed to scientists (especially physicists and chemists) and engineers, detailing various topics in mathematics that arise in those disciplines. Generally these courses assume some knowledge of physics, and a mathematical background that consists of an introductory sequence through multivariate calculus, and rst courses in linear algebra and di erential equations. Major topics typically include vector analysis, complex analysis, Fourier analysis, and partial di erential equations. The popular and/or classic texts that come to mind in this category include, for example, Arfken and Weber s Mathematical Methods for Physicists, Boas s Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences, or Kreyszig s Advanced Engineering Mathematics. Although it plays a similar role, Blum and Lototsky takes an unconventional approach. The topics are more focussed and many are out of the scope of these other textbooks. In a nutshell, it puts much greater emphasis on the interplay between mathematics and physics, and goes to great lengths to involve
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