Review

"A very readable book."

-Ron Perline, Drexel University

"The students will appreciate the complete working out of several examples and the graphs to illustrate solutions. Instructors will appreciate the multitude of theoretical and applied exercises from which to choose for assignments."

-Kathie Yerion, Gonzaga University

"One must always look at a text that is to have an appeal for engineering students to see if the mathematician/author has written the text too directed toward the mathematician's eye. The popularity of this text is evidence that the book strikes about the right intuitive note. Students have seen many of the problems in their engineering courses and find here a foundation in which those ideas from their engineering classes can be made more precise."

-James Herod, Georgia Tech -- Review

Review

"The new edition is an improvement over the third edition. Some of the strengths of the new edition are a clear and casual style f presentation, a large number of worked examples and exercises, numerous graphs and tables that illustrate concepts, and several new applied modeling problems."

--Michael Smiley, IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY

"I enjoyed the clever way in which he motivates the introduction to Sturm-Leouville problems in Chapter 2, showing them to be a natural consequence of the separation if variables method. The new section (2.12) on applications of the error function was a pleasant surprise, as this topic is not addressed in most books."

--Jim Mueller, CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY

"The exercise sets are very good. There are several exercises--especially some recently added that there are excellent examples of more novel topics."

--Lawrence Schovanee, TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY

"This book will continue to be held in high regard.."

--James V. Herod, GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY