Basic Training in Mathematics A Fitness Program for Science Students

Are you: Entering a program in the physical sciences? A high school student who has taken most of the offered courses, and looking for a glimpse of college mathematics? Engaged in self-study to hone your mathematical skills? Then R. Shankara?s Basic Training in Mathematics: A Fitness Program for Science Students is written for you. Based on the authora?s course at Yale University, the book addresses the widening gap found by Professor Shankar and his colleagues between the mathematics needed for upper-level science study and the knowledge possessed by incoming students. This superb text organizes the necessary mathematics background into a one-semester course covering such topics as: - A review of calculus - Infinite series - Functions of a complex variable - Vector calculus - Matrices - Linear vector spaces - Differential equations Get in shape for your future science studies with this outstanding text.Shankar, R. is the author of 'Basic Training in Mathematics A Fitness Program for Science Students' with ISBN 9780306450358 and ISBN 0306450356.