Name: Mathematical Methods for Physicists: A Comprehensive Guide
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Rating: 4.92 (13 reviews)

Mathematical Methods for Physicists continues to provide all the mathematical methods that aspiring scientists and engineers are likely to encounter as students and beginning researchers. This bestselling text provides mathematical relations and their proofs essential to the study of physics and related fields. While retaining the key features of the 6th edition, the new edition provides a more careful balance of explanation, theory, and examples. Taking a problem-solving-skills approach to incorporating theorems with applications, the book’s improved focus will help students succeed throughout their academic careers and well into their professions. Some notable enhancements include more refined and focused content in important topics, improved organization, updated notations, extensive explanations and intuitive exercise sets, a wider range of problem solutions, improvement in the placement, and a wider range of difficulty of exercises.

13 reviews for Mathematical Methods for Physicists: A Comprehensive Guide

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Rated 4 out of 5

July 24, 2017

Quality of International Edition seems quite usable and you can save $$$ with it

I got this book for a graduate level class I am taking next semester (Fall 2017), so I have not really looked at the content in this book at all yet a...More
I got this book for a graduate level class I am taking next semester (Fall 2017), so I have not really looked at the content in this book at all yet and have no comment on the content. I will update this review if I have antyhing to say on the content after going through it this next semester. My main purpose of this review at this moment is to comment on the quality of the international edition. I ordered the international edition from an Amazon seller called Lowcost Bukz, and the international edition seems to be a decent quality and not an extraordinarily bad quality as some reviews on here make it seem. While, as I read in a review, the paper does seem a bit thin and "newspaper-like", the printing is clear and readable. I ordered it new and it came a bit beat up, but that is not a huge problem and likely to be expected with most international editions. Overall, the book is usable and readable and seems like it should stand up well as long as one is not too rough with the book. Also, with a bit of Googling you can likely find a PDF copy of it as a back up should something happen to the international edition. Overall, I would recommend ordering the international edition of this book if you want to save a bit of money (roughly $30+) and want a physical book (it tends to be easier to flip around in the book, such as if you need to refer to information earlier in the book for doing a problem, with a physical copy than with a PDF). I do not think given the quality of the international edition that it is worth spending a lot more money for the U.S. edition. I will update this review if I notice anything else about the quality or if I have comments in the future about the content.

Update 12/23/2017:
After finishing the semester, the book seemed to hold up well. It is still intact though the cover is now a bit bent. I did not travel to often with it and the bends in the soft cover mostly came from when I did do the traveling. I have put clear contact paper on a number of my soft covers which helps them stay sturdy, and I did not get the chance to put the contact paper on this book, so it likely would have held up even better with that added protection. As far as the content, I found the writing to be rather dry. However, reading the text was still useful and there are numerous practice problems, a few even with answers given. The course I took covered complex integration, series solutions of differential equations, integral equations, orthogonality, Green's functions, and group theory. I found Mary Boas' Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences to be helpful in my course, as well. It covers many of the same topics as this book and Boas' book often covered the topics more clearly, so if you have the extra cash to purchase Boas' book or if you can find a PDF copy of it, I would highly recommend that book in addition to this one.

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