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Advanced Engineering Mathematics
by K.A. Stroud, Dexter J. Booth
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (2003-02-28)
ISBN: 1403903123
EAN: 9781403903129
Dewy Decimal #: 511
Paperback: 1280 pages
Edition: 4Rev Ed
Condition: As New
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Customer Reviews
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can be a great resource at times, despite it weakness in areas
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-08-24
Hi,
To be honest both the 'Engineering Mathematics' and this volume 'Advanced Engineering Mathematics' can be useful for revision of principles due to it stripped-bare style. Often the lack of explicit theory that is needed with pure can be helpful as the bare bones are exposed for examination.
For example in 'A.E.M', the section on 'Power Series', 'Vector Analysis (1-2-3)' and 'Complex Analysis (1-2-3)', the latter in regards to 'Greens Theorem' & 'Cauchy Theorem' sections with their concise, bare-bones definitions is a model of clarity.
I say this and accept the real need for more supporting theory which is missing in these volumes. So large areas cannot be logically fully justified, and notice vast area of Math syllabus is missing. Say 'Mechanics' as a topic in its own right self must have a bearing in Engineering topics? So the user of this work relies maybe too much on `doing' rather than in-depth knowledge? But I can find that in other works, so if you accept this, it's still helpful to have a browse through both of these volumes, even if it's just to refresh you memory. Also it still great value for money.
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stroud=GOD
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-01-21
4 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
Stroud is a legend, this man could single handily bring world piece in a simple 46-stage process. Luckily for me he stuck to writing math textbooks and without it i think i would have spent many more gruelling hours in the library trying to pass my mechanical engineering maths exams. This book will sort your life out. Cheers
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Further confidence building
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-09-13
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I had managed to get through my first year undergraduate course in Engineering with the assistance of Engineering Mathematics: Programmes and Problems also by Ken Stroud. I decided to try again with Further Engineering Mathematics and repeated the success story.
Inspired with my success with `volume one' I decided to try and get ahead of the game by having a go at volume two before the second year started when I was completing an industrial placement. On the occasions I got stuck I managed to find an engineering graduate who could point me back in the right direction. This helps demonstrate you don't need to be in an educational environment for the book to work.
Ken uses a simple, systematic method of introducing each mathematical subject in simple terms and "warms you up" by working through a few easy examples. You are encouraged to keep a notebook of proofs and equations for easy reference and after a short while these are soon memorized by repetition. Working on a "picture frame" by picture frame basis new material is introduced to the reader and the reader tested by writing down a response and comparing it to the correct answer. The level of complexity increases and quite soon you are tackling worked examples and `test yourself' exercises.
This `remote from the classroom' method of learning worked for me because I could have a go when it suited me. This has the advantage of learning material in advance so formal lectures reinforce what you have learnt or used post lecture in a similar fashion. Although you are not having direct contact time with a teacher you feel as though you are!
I would thoroughly recommend this book to anyone tackling a HNC in engineering or engineering degree, especially the second year and beyond. For anyone needing a top up on there first year mathematics check out Engineering Mathematics: Programmes and Problems. Anyone needing to get to grips with Laplace Transforms check out Kens book specifically on this subject.
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Amazing book for 1st/2nd year Engineering Undergraduates!
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-08-24
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
I can wholeheartedly say that Stroud's series (Engineering Mathematics and Advanced) helped ensure a good grade for my mathematics modules for my first year in Electrical/Electronic Engineering. It treats topics very systematically, gives summaries and tables, which are especially useful for those mechanical math techniques such as in integration, they are listed in a way so you can use it for quick reviews later as well. It explains concepts with good detail without being tediously daunting to read, it achieves what very few math books (in my experience) are able to. Advanced Engineering mathematics is helpful for some of the basic mathematical topics in 2nd year too, for instance Vector Calculus (Divergence thm., Curl etc), Z transforms , some of COnformal Mappings, Complex Integration etc.
It would be great if Stroud produced another version with the more advanced mathematical concepts and one for advanced statistics.
In any case if you are in your first two years as an Undergraduate in any Engineering course, this series is a must-have!
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Learning perfection
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-09-06
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
I thouroughly rate this book for anyone attempting an engineering degree.It is very well organised into programs making it easy to self teach yourself the higher mathematics. I don't think i could have come so far without Stroud's books. There is nothing more you could want from a text book.
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