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Graduate Mathematical Physics, With MATHEMATICA Supplements + CD
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by James J. Kelly
Sales Rank: 733076
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List Price: $85.00
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Paperback: 482 pages
Publisher: Wiley-VCH; Pap/Cdr edition January 2, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3527406379
ISBN-13: 978-3527406371
Product Dimensions:
9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
Product Review
"Kelly has been successful in creating a narrowed and focused book, with an accompanying student CD-ROM…" (CHOICE, July 2007)
Book Description
This up-to-date textbook on mathematical methods of physics is designed for a one-semester graduate or two-semester advanced undergraduate course. The formal methods are supplemented by applications that use MATHEMATICA to perform both symbolic and numerical calculations.
The book is written by a physicist lecturer who knows the difficulties involved in applying mathematics to real problems. As many as 40 exercises are included at the end of each chapter. A student CD includes a basic introduction to MATHEMATICA, notebook files for each chapter, and solutions to selected exercises.
Free solutions manual available for lecturers at college@wiley-vch.de.
Customer Reviews & Comments
If you are a physics graduate student, with a preference for computational topics, then Kelly's book can be a useful guide. Especially if you also plan on using Mathematica. There is no shortage of general texts on the latter, including from Wolfram Research itself. But at the graduate physics level, your needs tend to be far more specialised. Now, strictly speaking, Kelly's book is primarily about various maths topics that physicists use. With the sections on Mathematica secondary. But I found little to distinguish this from other "pure" texts on mathematical physics. Nothing wrong with it, per se. However, what seems to differentiate this book from others are those sections showing how to use Mathematica in exotic ways. Perhaps this is how you should also treat it?
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