Essentials of Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering, Second Edition

This book gives a coherent treatment of the selected topics with a style that makes the essential mathematical skills easily accessible to a multidisciplinary audience.Since the book is written in modular format, each chapter covers its subject thoroughly and thus can be read independently. This makes the book very useful for self-study and as a reference or refresher for scientists.The entire book contains a sufficient amount of material for a three-semester course meeting three to four hour a week. The topical coverage and the modular structure of the book make it versatile enough to be adopted for several different mathematics courses offered and allows instructors the flexibility to individualize their own teaching while maintaining the integrity and the uniformity of the discussions for their students. This new edition includes two new and extensive chapters (Ch.6 and Ch.7) entitled ”Practical Linear Algebra” and ”Applications of Linear Algebra”, respectively, and a computer file that includes Matlab. Instructors can also use these codes, available as open source on the author’s website (http://users.metu.edu.tr/bayin/). as demos and ask students to write their own codes. To maintain continuity of the discussions, the author has collected exercises at the end of each chapter, where they are predominantly listed in the same order that they are discussed within the text. Occasionally, when proofs or extensions of certain results are too technical to be discussed within the text, they are assigned as exercises