Essential Mathematical Methods for the Physical （基本数学物理方法）.pdf

Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76114-7 - Essential Mathematical Methods for the Physical Sciences K. F. Riley and M. P. Hobson Frontmatter More information Essential Mathematical Methods for the Physical Sciences The mathematical methods that physical scientists need for solving substantial problems in their fields of study are set out clearly and simply in this tutorial-style textbook. Students will develop problem-solving skills through hundreds of worked examples, self-test questions and homework problems. Each chapter concludes with a summary of the main procedures and results and all assumed prior knowledge is summarized in one of the appendices. Over 300 worked examples show how to use the techniques and around 100 self-test questions in the footnotes act as checkpoints to build student confidence. Nearly 400 end-of-chapter problems combine ideas from the chapter to reinforce the concepts. Hints and outline answers to the odd-numbered problems are given at the end of each chapter, with fully worked solutions to these problems given in the accompanying Student Solution Manual. Fully worked solutions to all problems, password-protected for instructors, are available at /essential. K. F. Riley read mathematics at the University of Cambridge and proceeded to a Ph.D. there in theoretical and experimental nuclear physics. He became a Research Associate in elementary particle physics at Brookhaven, and then, having taken up a lectureship at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, co