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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The Appetizers
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Front Matter
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The Entrees
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Front Matter
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The Desserts
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
Aimed at undergraduates in their second or third year, this book is filled with examples from a wide variety of disciplines, including biology, economics, medicine, engineering, game theory, physics, chemistry. The text is organized along a spiral, revisiting general topics such as graphics, symbolic computation, and numerical simulation in greater detail and more depth at each turn of the spiral.
The heart of the text is a large number of computer algebra recipes. These have been designed not only to provide tools for problem solving, but also to stimulate the reader's imagination. Associated with each recipe is a scientific model or method and a story that leads the reader through steps of the recipe. Each section of recipes is followed by a set of problems that readers can use to check their understanding or to develop the topic further.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"In the book, the authors are showing the reader what they can do with Maple 6, and they can do a lot. Simply flipping the pages of the book, the reader might get very inspired by the formulas and pictures. … Most of the text I covered up to now contains useful and exciting examples … . the book is definitely very useful for educators … ." (L. Kocbach, Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 144, 2002)
"This book captures the essence of the CAS approach and it is the best book of its kind that I am aware of. The level of mathematics, the eclectic, abundant and carefully selected problem set, the friendly and expansive text and the clear demonstration of the power of the CAS approach all add up to a first rate book. … I highly recommend that you get your library to order a copy." (B.I. Henry, The Physicist, Vol. 39 (2), 2002)
"This book is a readable introduction to Maple, a computer algebra system. The authors present real life situations, describe them in the language of mathematics, and then use Maple to find or deduce conclusions, predictions and classifications of each of these situations." (Václav Koubek, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 976, 2002)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Computer Algebra Recipes
Book Subtitle: A Gourmet’s Guide to the Mathematical Models of Science
Authors: Richard H. Enns, George C. McGuire
Series Title: Undergraduate Texts in Contemporary Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0171-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-95148-5Published: 08 June 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-6533-7Published: 02 May 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-0171-4Published: 07 March 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 778
Topics: Algebra, Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Applications of Mathematics, Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation, Physics, general, Computational Intelligence