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Title: A Physicists Guide to Mathematica by Patrick Tam, Patrick T. Tam ISBN: 0-12-683190-4 Publisher: Academic Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $69.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: excellent - must read for beginners
Comment: I read many Mathematica books, introductory and advanced - yet this one clearly stands out (even in this high quality field).
The title and the previous reviewer suggest that this is a book for physicists or physics students. This is quite unfortunate, as it may put off others from learning proper use of Mathematica from this book. True, the examples are from physics, but most of them are elementary physics, done by students of science, life sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering etc.
The reason why non-physicists should read that book is extremely clear exposure of three areas of Mathematica: a) introductory level use of mma as a simple calculator/grapher/equation solver; b) very good illustration on practical aspects of using mma to solve slightly larger problems - showing the right _methodology_ of mapping real world problems into mma so they can be solved neatly; c) very good introduction to programming in Mathematica on the introductory to intermediate level (with some hints of advanced)
I admit to having a strong bias towards this book - it is one of many introductory books I read and I regret it was not my first one. That would have saved me reading others - beginners, intermediate and advanced alike. [OK, I read them just to compare, anyway :-)]
Rating: 5
Summary: Very good Mathematica introduction for physics students!
Comment: If you need to apply Mathematica to study real physical systems,then i think you can find a lot of useful material in this book.The book begins with the use of Mathematica as an advanced interactive calculator and graphic display ,then elucidates its use as a programming language and finally shows a series of Mathematica packages that deal with specific problems in different physical areas.The author mixes explanations and hints with one to one reproduction of the computer screen inputs and outputs.The exposition is very clear and student-friendly.On the whole a great text!
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Title: Schaum's Outline of Mathematica by Eugene Don ISBN: 007135719X Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 30 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Mathematica for Physics by Robert L. Zimmerman, Fredrick Olness ISBN: 0805387005 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 31 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $84.00 |
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Title: Mathematical Physics by Sadri Hassani ISBN: 0387985794 Publisher: Springer-Verlag Pub. Date: 21 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $89.95 |
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Title: Mathematical Methods using Mathematica by Sadri Hassani ISBN: 0387955232 Publisher: Springer Verlag Pub. Date: 28 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Mathematica Book, Fifth Edition by Stephen Wolfram ISBN: 1579550223 Publisher: Wolfram Media Pub. Date: 22 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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