Principles Of Applied Mathematics : Transformation And Approximation

This book is written for beginning graduate students in applied mathematics, science, and engineering, and is appropriate as a one-year course in applied mathematical techniques (although I have never been able to cover all of this material in one year). We assume that the students have studied at an introductory undergraduate level material on linear algebra, ordinary and partial differential equations, and complex variables. The emphasis of the book is a working, systematic understanding of classical techniques in a modern context. Along the way, students are exposed to models from a variety of disciplines. It is hoped that this course will prepare students for further study of modern techniques and in-depth modeling in their own specific discipline. This book is primarily about the principles that one uses to solve problems in applied mathematics. It is written for beginning graduate students in applied mathematics, science, and engineering, and is appropriate as a one-year course in applied mathematical techniques. In any problem that we wish to solve, the goal is to find a particular object, chosen from among a large collection of contenders, which satisfies that governing constraints of the problem.