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Readership: Undergraduate upper-division courses in mathematical methods of physics in U.S. colleges and universities. Supplementary reading for upper-division and graduate courses in physics, physical sciences, and engineering.
Chun Wa Wong, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA
Wong is a theoretical physicist educated at UCLA and Harvard. He has worked in Copenhagen, Princeton, Oxford, and Saclay (near Paris). He has been at UCLA since 1969. He was a Sloan research Fellow, and is a fellow of the American Physical Society. His main interest is in theoretical physics.
"This book gathers together in one place both standard and advanced topics on mathematical methods in physics. As such, it will be of use to both researchers and students in theoretical physics, as well as university-level lecturers who may wish to use it as a textbook. The second edition expands on the set of problems of the first edition, and includes new material on special relativity and chaos. It covers a broad spectrum of topics that will be of enormous use to theoretical physicists." - Richard J. Szabo, Heriot-Watt University
1: Vectors and fields in space 2: Transformations, matrices, and operators 3: Relativistic square-root spaces 4: Fourier series and Fourier transformations 5: Differential equations in physics 6: Nonlinear systems 7: Special functions 8: Functions of a complex variable Appendix A: Tutorials Appendix B: Mathematica and other computer algebra systems Appendix C: Computer algebra (CA) with Mathematica
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