Mathematical Methods for Physicists: A Concise Introduction 1st Edition by Tai L. Chow (PDF)

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This text is designed for an intermediate-level, two-semester undergraduate course in mathematical physics. It provides an accessible account of most of the current, important mathematical tools required in physics these days. It is assumed that the reader has an adequate preparation in general physics and calculus. The book bridges the gap between an introductory physics course and more advanced courses in classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, quantum mechanics, and thermal and statistical physics. The text contains a large number of worked examples to illustrate the mathematical techniques developed and to show their relevance to physics. The book is designed primarily for undergraduate physics majors, but could also be used by students in other subjects, such as engineering, astronomy and mathematics.

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⭐This is not the one I would recommend. This book amuses you with lots of typos, such as “head conduction”, instead of “heat conduction” and some weird mathematical notations, like 1 over vector r, in TeX notation, frac{1}{vec{r}}. (Some say it is better than Chow’s _Classical Mechanics_. That book had three “vertical” dots over a varaible.) Not just that. I just finished solving an exercise set for a chapter on complex variables and some problems are identical to Murray R. Spiegel’s _Complex Variables_. Not a word was different.

⭐This book mixes the brevity of Schaum’s Outlines with the incomprehensibility of The Tao of Pooh. The author copies, sometimes, directly from either Schaum’s or Arfkin. There is nothing noteworthy in this book and your money is better spent buying the original books, i.e. Schaum’s. I am supprised that Cambridge University Press would publish this and not fear the litigation from more respectable authors who Chow copied this from. If you wrote a Schaum’s or any Math Methods book please check for plagairism, it is there. If you are a Prof. thinking of assigning this book, Don’t. And if you are a student who is required to buy this book, use the original Schaum’s Outlines!

⭐This book is full of typos. Many many typos. There is also overlap with other books.

⭐As a student in a math for physicist course who tried to learn the material for the first time, this book was totally worthless. Not only are the errors rampant but the text makes leaps between problem solving and solution, with no explanation. This book needs an editor (because it obviously didn’t have one this time) and an intellectual properties rights attorney.

⭐Thank you for looking after such old copy. It was been looked after very well. So I am pleased to get such thing in a bargain price..

⭐Me parece libro bastante completo y con revisión teórica bastante compendiada, con bastante equilibrio entre profundidad y extensión en demostraciones y explicaciones, sin extenderse demasiado. Abarca muchas de las técnicas matemáticas empleadas en muchas ramas de la física. Le faltan ejemplos o ejercicios resueltos pero eso puede suplirse con otros libros de ejercicios específicos de cada área.Puede ser un buen libro de consulta rápida.

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