Re: Book recommendation for engineers
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- Subject: [mg9408] Re: Book recommendation for engineers
- From: sergio at scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Sergio Rojas)
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 01:56:27 -0500
- Organization: City College Of New York - Science
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hello Graves:
In my view,the Bahder book is one on the few references about
Mathematica Version 2.2 that is worth buying. However, it is not a book
for beginners in the sense that one needs to have a general idea about
how Mathematica works in order to follow the book without being lost.
The book is weak in discussing how to create and format graphics, but
it provides very good illustrative examples about the use of
Mathematica in other areas of mathematics that an Engineer may find in
his/her way. Also, keep in mind that many things have been changed in
Mathematica 3.0 (and above) that, obviously, are not covered in
Bahder's book.
In general, it is very difficult to point out a single reference
covering Mathematica in a comprehensive way and one may need to spend a
lot of time to understand how something works. Even though one may find
a lot of references about Mathematica, few of them are really useful,
and the end result is that the program is still poorly documented,
which makes it a little difficult to grasp at the beginning.
Fortunately, the existence of this forum makes life a little bit easier
and enjoyable when working with Mathematica.
Salut,
Sergio
E-mail: sergio at scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Van Graves (gravesvb at ornl.gov) wrote:
: I'm a new Mathematica user and am looking for a good Mathematica 3.0
: tutorial/reference book geared toward engineering. I've been using the
: Kaufmann book "Mathematica as a Tool", which seems to be pretty good,
: although not written for 3.0. I am specifically interested in
: "Mathematica for Scientists and Engineers" by Bahder. I haven't seen
: this one in local/university bookstores and was wondering if anyone who
: has used it would care to give an opinion. Any other recommendations
: would also be appreciated.
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