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A Course of Modern Analysis
Binding: Paperback
Author: E. T. Whittaker
Manufacturer: Merchant Books
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Average Rating: 4.5
Total Customer Reviews: 18
List Price: $25.00
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Sales Rank: 663544
Product Description
A Course Of Modern Analysis - Second Edition - An Unabridged, Completely Revised Printing Of The First Edition, With Additions (Riemann Integration, Integral Equations, Riemann-Zeta Function) And Corrections, And Consistent With All Subsequent Editions (at publication), Save For The 23rd Chapter Dealing With Ellipsoidal Harmonics And Lame's Equation - This Edition Has Been Digitally Enlarged, To Include The Decimal System Of Paragraphing, With Appendix, List Of Quoted Authors, And Comprehensive General Index.
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Product Review Summary: unexpected 1- The book is not printed. They have taken pictures of the original book (1920s?) and printed the pictures.
The result is tiny fonts and a quite old pagination style.
2- Some people may like the no-frills and matter-of-fact text but I personally find an endless list of dry-to-the-bone mathematical facts a little bit stifling. And, yes, I know that this is a mathematical book, but it doesn't have to be this airless.
3- As far as I can tell there is an error in the first line at page 12. I haven't read much more and so I cannot vouch for the rest of the book.
All in all, I wouldn't recommend it and I wouldn't have bought it had I had a chance of looking at it first
Product Review Summary: Book in bad conditions. The product I recieved is in terrible conditions, very used and dirty, the book must have been a new edition (in blue color) but this one is grey. I send you some photos in another message in order to show you the bad conditions of this book.
Product Review Summary: Whittaker & Watson Classic text. Good encyclopedic source of mathematics - pure & applied. Definitely not a picture book and takes a bit of digging to find what one needs. Typical abbreviated index found in British texts of that era.
Product Review Summary: Watson and Whittaker Excellent for reference and technique. Don't expect calculus on manifolds or forms. But work the "old school" problems and the payoff will be tremendous" For those who want to a more modern (geometric) supplement Spivak is good and there is a book called Visual Complex Analysis that is by Needham (spelling?) that is quite good.
Product Review Summary: This book is worth it's weight in gold!! If I could, I would give this book ten stars. When I first sat down to read it, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. This is the only book I have ever seen on complex analysis (or any scientific field for that matter) in which the authors cover so much material (everything from residues to integral equations to elliptic functions and MUCH more) and yet manage to make the whole text fit into a framework which is relatively easy to follow, even for someone completely new to complex analysis. Moreover, the majority of the many hundreds of excercizes in this book range from moderately to nail-bitingly hard, and encourage a true understanding of the material being covered. I would reccommend this book for ANYONE who has mastered basic calculus and analysis and wishes to begin learning complex analysis and the theory of special functions. The book's coverage of the following topics is especially noteworthy: The gamma function (the book uses the INFINITE PRODUCT as the basic definition), the hypergeometric function (and the confluent hypergeometric function), bessel functions (a field in which G.N. Watson was a leading expert), and the Weirstrassian and Jacobean elliptic functions and theta functions (I LOVED the intuitive development of the theory of the elliptic functions, which is made to parrallel that of the trigonometric functions, which are of course familiar to the reader). I would ESPECIALLY recommend this book for those pursuing SELF-STUDY (although it is NOT for the mathematically weak-of-heart, but no book on the topic is), as it is quite self-contained and readable for a book on complex analysisis. Once you buy it, you won't even think to complain about the high pricetag, because you will be way too absorbed in the math to think about anything else.
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