How to Derive a Formula Volume 2: Further Analytical Skills and Methods for Physical Scientists
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Will artificial intelligence make scientific formulae redundant by eventually solving all current and future physical problems? The authors of this book would argue that there is still a vital role for humans to play in making sense of the laws of nature. To derive a formula one follows a series of steps, only the last of which is to check that the result is correct. The book is about unravelling this machinery.
Mathematics is the 'queen of all sciences', but students encounter many obstacles in learning the subject: familiarization with the proofs of hundreds of theorems, mysterious symbols, and technical routines for which the usefulness is not obvious upfront. Learners could lose motivation, not seeing the wood for the trees.
This two-volume book How to Derive a Formula is an attempt to engage learners by presenting mathematical methods in as simple terms as possible, with more of an emphasis on skills as opposed to technical knowledge. Based on intuition and common sense rather than mathematical rigour, it teaches students from scratch using pertinent examples, many taken from across the physical sciences to demonstrate the application of the methods taught.
This book draws on humour and historical facts to provide an interesting new perspective on what a mathematics textbook could be. The two volumes are presented as an ascent to Everest. Volume 1 covered the necessary basics, taking readers from Base Camp to Camps 1 and 2. This volume moves readers from Camp 2 up to Camps 3 and 4, tackling more advanced methods for deriving formulae. Inevitably, Volume 2 requires readers to tackle more challenging terrain than was experienced in Volume 1 and so is targeted at more advanced students.
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Preface
Chapter 1: Multiple Integration in More Depth
Contents:
Preface
About the Authors
From Camp 2: In the Multidimensional and Complex World:
Multiple Integration in More Depth
Surfaces and Vectors
Vector Fields and More Vector Calculus
Differential Eigenvalue Equations and Special Functions
Coupled Linear Second Order Differential Equations and Higher Order Equations
Approximation Techniques for Ordinary Differential Equations
Homogeneous Partial Differential Equations
Complex Contour Integration
More Involved Methods for the Summation of Series
Concluding Remarks
From Camp 3: From Becoming at Ease with Inhomogeneous Partial Differential Equations to a Glimpse of Integral Equations, Functionals, Variation Calculus, Functional Integration, and a Snapshot of the 'Fractional World':
Dealing with Inhomogeneous Partial Differential Equations
A Brief Look into the World of Integral Equations
Principles of Variational Calculus
Path Integrals — A First Look
In the Thin Air of the Fractional World
Concluding Remarks
The Final Ascent to Everest
Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students (in any disciplines of exact sciences), and postdoctoral researchers in physical sciences, university lecturers for teaching the material of some of the chapters of the book.
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