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Mathematical Handbook for Scientists and Engineers: Definitions, Theorems, and Formulas for Reference and Review Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent and complete reference
Comment: During 20 years of using the Handbook of Mathematics
(by I.N. Bronshtein, K.A. Semendyayev)I was looking for an English written counterpart in this matter and sure enough I found it in this book. My point of view is personally based on engineering disciplines. With the help of Amazon's preview features it was a quick decision which book to buy. It has a well structured content, the concept is logically outlined, and discusses all chapters an engineer can ask for. That's probably why it has over one thousand pages, which makes it more a mathematical lexicon. The date of the publication might seem to be outdated, yet it proves that mathematic has become an almost static discipline engineers and scientists can rely on.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Abundance of theorems and math...basic explanations only...
Comment: This book is filled with formula's and theorems. However, one must have a basic understanding of all the formulas and theorems in order to understand most of them. If you love math and enjoy seeing how formulas and theorems are worked out this is an excellent book. Even though it is extremely thick. I had hoped they would explain in much more detail the order of operations. Other than that, it is a well put together reference book.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: The Best
Comment: I have looked into a lot of mathematical handbooks but most are just junk. This one is the best available. The only one that is comparable to this is the one by Abramowitz and Stegun. If you need an applied mathematics handbook, go for this one.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Rather old fashioned, but never-the-less useful
Comment: This Handbook has quite a lot of more formal math in it.

Rade and Westergren's modern Handbook is more useful for finding the engineering equations you need, without all the formal stuff.

I find both useful in different ways.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: The worlds best mathematical handbook
Comment: I have been using Korn and Korn for over 20 years, and have gone through two hardback editions, before buying the paperback one for my son who is studying electrical engineering. I would not have bought him anything else, because Korn^2 is the MOST complete mathematical reference book I have ever seen. It is infinitely more useable than Bronshtein and Semendyayev, and if you want to have one reference book Korn^2 should be your choice.

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