This book is based on an honors course in advanced calculus that we gave in the 1960’s. The foundational material, presented in the unstarred sections of Chapters 1 through 11, was normally covered, but different applications of this basic material were stressed...
There are so many excellent books on finite difference methods for ordinary and partial differential equations that writing yet another one requires a different view on the topic. The present book is not so concerned with the traditional academic presentation of the...
Process optimization is the method of choice for improving the performance of industrial processes, while enforcing the satisfaction of safety and quality constraints. Long considered as an appealing tool but only applicable to academic problems, optimization has now...
Maxima (link to project page) is a freely available and powerful computer algebra system (CAS) which is an open source cousin of the commercial Macsyma CAS. Maxima has powerful symbolic, numerical, and graphical capabilities, and you can download as many copies as you...
The title of the book sounds a bit mysterious. Why should anyone read this book if it presents the subject in a wrong way? What is particularly done ‘wrong’ in the book? Before answering these questions, let me first describe the target audience of this...
