Computer Algebra Recipes: A Gourmet's Guide to the Mathematical Models of Science (Undergraduate Texts in Contemporary Physics) By Richard H. Enns, George C. Mcguire ISBN: 9780387951485 ASIN: B00BDI48ZG Published: 2001 Number of Pages: 778 Binding: Hardcover

Pricing & Availability: Additional Details: Product Type: Book Publisher: Springer Description: Computer algebra systems have the potential to revolutionize the teaching of and learning of science. Not only can students work thorough mathematical models much more efficiently and with fewer errors than with pencil and paper, they can also work with much more complex and computationally intensive models. Thus, for example, in studying the flight of a golf ball, students can begin with the simple parabolic trajectory, but then add the effects of lift and drag, of winds, and of spin. Not only can the program provide analytic solutions in some cases, it can also produce numerical solutions and graphic displays. Aimed at undergraduates in their second or third year, this book is filled with examples from a wide variety of disciplines, including biology, economics, medicine, engineering, game theory, physics, chemistry. The text is organized along a spiral, revisiting general topics such as graphics, symbolic computation, and numerical simulation in greater detail and more depth at each turn of the spiral.The heart of the text is a large number of computer algebra recipes. These have been designed not only to provide tools for problem solving, but also to stimulate the reader's imagination. Associated with each recipe is a scientific model or method and a story that leads the reader through steps of the recipe.Each section of recipes is followed by a set of problems that readers can use to check their understanding or to develop the topic further."

Library of Congress Control Number
   - LC control Number:  00061918
   - LC control Number: 00061918

International Standard Book Number: 0387951482: 0387951482 (alk. paper): 0387951482 : (alk. paper)
   - Terms of availability: CIP rev.

Level of Bibliographic Control and Coding Detail: COUTTS

Library of Congress Call Number
   - Classification number: QC30
   - Classification number: QC'30'E48'2001
   - Item number: .E48 2001

Dewey Decimal Classification Number
   - Edition number: 21
   - Classification number: 530/.078/5

Main Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Enns, Richard H
   - Personal name: Enns, Richard H.

Title Statement
   - Title: Computer algebra recipes :
   - Remainder of title: a gourmet's guide to mathematical models of science /
   - Remainder of title: a gourmet's guide to the mathematical models of science /
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Richard H. Enns, George C. McGuire
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Richard H. Enns, George C. McGuire.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: London :
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: New York :
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: New York ;
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: New York, NY :
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Springer,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 2001.
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c2001
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c2001.

Physical Description
   - Extent: xiv, 778 p. :
   - Other physical details: ill. ;
   - Other physical details: ill. +
   - Dimensions: 24 cm. +
   - Dimensions: 25 cm. +
   - Accompanying material: 1 CD-ROM
   - Accompanying material: 1 computer laser optical disc (4 3/4 in.).
   - Accompanying material: 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.)
   - Accompanying material: 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.).

Series Statement/Added Entry - Title: Undergraduate texts in contemporary physics

General Note: Accompanying CD-ROM in pocket at rear.

Bibliography, etc. Note
   - Bibliography: Bibliogr.
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [747]-751) and index
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [747]-751) and index.
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes: 1

Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Mathematical models
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Mathematical models.
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Physics
   - General subdivision: Computer-assisted instruction
   - General subdivision: Computer-assisted instruction.

Added Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: McGuire, George,
   - Dates associated with a name: 1940-