Professor Sawyer's book is based on a course given to the majority of engineering students in their first year at Toronto University. Its aim is to present the important ideas in linear algebra to students of average ability whose principal interests lie outside the field of mathematics; as such it will be of interest to students in other disciplines as well as engineering. The emphasis throughout is on imparting an understanding of the significance of the mathematical techniques and great care has therefore been taken to being out the underlying ideas embodied in the formal calculations. In...
Professor Sawyer's book is based on a course given to the majority of engineering students in their first year at Toronto University. Its aim is to pr...
Functional analysis arose from traditional topics of calculus and integral and differential equations. This accessible text by an internationally renowned teacher and author starts with problems in numerical analysis and shows how they lead naturally to the concepts of functional analysis. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, this book provides coherent explanations for complex concepts. Topics include Banach and Hilbert spaces, contraction mappings and other criteria for convergence, differentiation and integration in Banach spaces, the Kantorovich test for...
Functional analysis arose from traditional topics of calculus and integral and differential equations. This accessible text by an internationally reno...
Here is a presentation of elementary mathematics that anyone can appreciate, especially those with imagination. As the title suggests, the author's technique relies on visual elements, and his approach employs the most graphic and least -forbidding- aspects of mathematics. Most people, he observes, possess a direct vision that permits them to -see- only the smaller numbers; with the larger numbers, however, vision fails and mental chaos ensues. Sawyer addresses this difficulty, speaking both for those who like recreational mathematics and for those who teach, suggesting a variety of...
Here is a presentation of elementary mathematics that anyone can appreciate, especially those with imagination. As the title suggests, the author's te...