George B. Arfken

Mathematical methods for physicists : a comprehensive guide - 7th ed. - U.S.A.: Academic Press, [c2013] - 1205 p.

Chapter 1 - Mathematical Preliminaries
Chapter 2 - Determinants and Matrices
Chapter 3 - Vector Analysis
Chapter 4 - Tensors and Differential Forms
Chapter 5 - Vector Spaces
Chapter 6 - Eigenvalue Problems
Chapter 7 - Ordinary Differential Equations
Chapter 8 - Sturm-Liouville Theory
Chapter 9 - Partial Differential Equations
Chapter 10 - Green's Functions
Chapter 11 - Complex Variable Theory
Chapter 12 - Further Topics in Analysis
Chapter 13 - Gamma Function
Chapter 14 - Bessel Functions
Chapter 15 - Legendre Functions
Chapter 16 - Angular Momentum
Chapter 17 - Group Theory
Chapter 18 - More Special Functions
Chapter 19 - Fourier Series
Chapter 20 - Integral Transforms
Chapter 21 - Integral Equations
Chapter 22 - Calculus of Variations
Chapter 23 - Probability and Statistics

Now in its 7th edition, Mathematical Methods for Physicists continues to provide all the mathematical methods that aspiring scientists and engineers are likely to encounter as students and beginning researchers. This bestselling text provides mathematical relations and their proofs essential to the study of physics and related fields. While retaining the key features of the 6th edition, the new edition provides a more careful balance of explanation, theory, and examples. Taking a problem-solving-skills approach to incorporating theorems with applications, the book's improved focus will help students succeed throughout their academic careers and well into their professions. Some notable enhancements include more refined and focused content in important topics, improved organization, updated notations, extensive explanations and intuitive exercise sets, a wider range of problem solutions, improvement in the placement, and a wider range of difficulty of exercises. --- summary provided by publisher

978-0-12-384654-9


Mathematics

QA37.3. A74