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Handbook of Mathematical Functions: with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Product for a Great Price!
Comment: Great Product for a Great Price! It was in great condition! Thank you very much!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: A classic, useful reference
Comment: There are other good texts out there less than 40 years old, but this in my opinion belongs along with them on the serious engineer's office shelf along with Gradshteyn & Rhyzik and the others.
Note: The text is actually taken from the 1972 10th edition, plus some corrections Dover made.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: a must have
Comment: A good reference for the scientist or the engineer, well organised and easy to use

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Summary: A seminal work
Comment: The amount of material in this book still stuns me, as well as the
care that was taken in compiling it. Its influence is still felt in
that many people still use its nomenclature for special functions.

Many of the comments of the other reviewers are valid. However, one
should realize this book came from another era, one in which the
availability of digital computation resources weren't so prevalent or
cheap as they are today. When one had to evaluate an expression to
more significant figures than available on a slide rule, the
calculation had to be done with logarithms and tables. It was noxious
drudgery and error-prone to boot.

This book covers many, if not most, of the special functions a
technical person will be likely to encounter during his or her career.
The level of presentation is approximately at what one could expect of
a four year technical degree that has had exposure to the normal year
and a half of elementary calculus, a semester or two of advanced
calculus including differential equations, a semester of complex
variables, and possibly a numerical analysis course. However, the
book can still be used profitably even if you haven't had all that
background.

For $25 new or $5-10 used, it's hard to get this kind of information
density for such low cost. My copy is pretty beat up; it's marked at
$6.95 and I probably bought it in the late 1960's or early 1970's.

The NIST is working on a digital replacement of Abramowitz and Stegun.
Visit their website for an update.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: May Be The Best Math Functions Book Around The World
Comment: (First of all, excuse my english, is not my mother lenguage)

This book details math functions properties for the most and the less known functions. Starting with math and physical constants, only as an ilusion, cause the body kernel for this text is to take a function( transcendental, exponential, Gamma, Error, Legendre, Bessel, Jacobi......) and detail every property(formulas) and every useful numerical data(tables) you would know. But be careful, if you are serching for a complete list of more general formulas, may be you have to try in other texts( as i.e: Zwillinger's Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae, edited by CRC Press), here you can't find matrices nor tensors, none about algebras, nothing on general analysis(calculus) but yes, you will find all the analytical properties for all the functions you use to use, and for those that only someone use... enjoy your book

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