About The Book
Throughout the course of history, engineering and mathematics have developed in parallel. All branches of engineering depend on mathematics for their description and there has been a steady flow of ideas and problems from engineering that has stimulated and sometimes initiated branches of mathematics. Thus it is vital that engineering students receive a thorough grounding in mathematics, with the treatment related to their interests and problems. Although the pace of the book is at a somewhat more advanced level than the companion text, the philosophy of learning by doing is retained with continuing emphasis on the development of students’ ability to use mathematics with understanding to solve engineering problems. Recognizing the increasing importance of mathematical modelling in engineering practice, many of the worked examples and exercises incorporate mathematical models that are designed both to provide relevance and to reinforce the role of mathematics in various branches of engineering. In addition, each chapter contains specific sections on engineering applications, and these form an ideal framework for individual, or group, study assignments, thereby helping to reinforce the skills of mathematical modelling, which are seen as essential if engineers are to tackle the increasingly complex systems they are being called upon to analyse and design. The importance of numerical methods in problem solving is also recognized, and its treatment is in tegrated with the analytical work throughout the book.
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