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This edition offers a smaller, easier to read, and useful version of this classic textbook. While competing textbooks continue to grow, the book presents a slimmer, more concise option. Instructors and students alike are rejecting the encyclopedic tome with its higher and higher price aimed at undergraduates.
List of contents
Introduction
List of Definitions
Chapter 1: First-Order Ordinary Differential Equations 1
Chapter 2: Higher-Order Ordinary Differential Equations
Chapter 3: Linear Algebra
Chapter 4: Vector Calculus
Chapter 5: Fourier Series
Chapter 6: The Fourier Transform
Chapter 7: The Laplace Transform
Chapter 8: The Wave Equation
Chapter 9: The Heat Equation
Chapter 10: Laplace's Equation
Chapter 11: The Sturm-Liouville Problem
Chapter 12: Special Functions
Appendix A: Derivation of the Laplacian in Polar Coordinates 565
Appendix B: Derivation of the Laplacian in Spherical Polar Coordinates 566
Answers
Index
About the author
Dean G. Duffy is a former mathematics instructor at the US Naval Academy and US Military Academy. He spent 25 years working on numerical weather prediction, oceanic wave modeling, and dynamical meteorology at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Prior to this, he was a numerical weather prediction officer in the US Air Force. He earned his Ph.D. in meteorology from MIT. Dr. Duffy has written several books on transform methods, engineering mathematics, and mixed boundary value problems including Green’s Functions with Applications, Second Edition, published by CRC Press.
Summary
This edition offers a smaller, easier to read, and useful version of this classic textbook. While competing textbooks continue to grow, the book presents a slimmer, more concise option. Instructors and students alike are rejecting the encyclopedic tome with its higher and higher price aimed at undergraduates.
