Advanced Engineering Mathematics

I love this format. So easy to understand.

Maybe it's because my instructor is starting halfway through the book and working backwards, but this text is terrible. It's formatting is unclear, the explanations and demonstrations are poor at best, and I've had to go back to my other textbook, Calculus Early Transcendentals by Briggs, Cochran, and Gillette to actually learn the material. Even the instructor admits that it's a terrible textbook, points out errors all over the place, and actually pulls out other textbooks when he needs to make sure he's doing formulas correctly. Worst part about the class is that the book comes with these digital "VU Graphs" that the instructor uses in place of his own PowerPoint, and they're just slides of the textbook. 10/10 would not recommend this book--but if you have to buy it, you have my condolences.

The book content is as great as expected, but it came severely damaged.

Absolutely horrible! The formatting in this book is a nightmare to follow.

I decided to buy this book as I have the Engineering Mathematics book by the same author and found that very useful for reminding me of things I sometimes forget. This book is in the same format. I feel that for people who are unfamiliar with the subjects, it does jump in and perhaps could do with a more detailed introduction as it seems to be written for people who already know the subject matter. It does cover many interesting topics, such as the wave equation, heat equation, curvilinear coordinates, and Laplace transforms. I'd say this book is at least a good reminder if you're already studying but I'm not sure if the explanations are clear to a reader who is new to a subject for example, the section on the Fourier series was straightforward to me as I've analysed waveforms for their constituent harmonics before in a different way to what was succinctly expressed in the book but I think the meaning behind the Fourier series may be a little obfuscated within the equations for a newcomer. Overall, I'd say it's a great reference for my ailing memory and marvellously detailed work, although it's perhaps a challenging read for some.

This book is particularly valuable for the great number of worked examples, with no steps omitted. The text limits itself to the basics, and then moves on to what is perhaps slightly mechanical drilling of those basics if the form of worked examples, but this approach is actually great for gaining confidence. There's much satisfaction to be gained from working them out oneself. A good foundation for moving on to other books for deeper insight and intuition behind the concepts. For example, Boas, Riley and Hobson

The book is excellent book for an independent learner. It is organised in frames which should be worked through. Stroud always gives the worked solutions. Both this book and first ideal for engineering courses at University. Only downside is that I would prefer if there was a Kindle version.

I had considered returning to study Mathematics at the Open University but the fees of over £7000 were not affordable for me in my current situation. Buying this book second hand as a ex-library book I can study to my hearts content and save myself the University fees. A wise choice I believe.

I bought this edition as I had an old copy of the 2nd edition and wanted to see what the new material on Dynamical systems was like. The book is good as the structured approach is very good at going through the essentials of a given technique However it is a bit disappointing in that many key topics are left out and compared to the second edition the material on the solution of differential equations by the Frobenius method has been cut to leave out how to obtain a second solution when the series solution blows up. That is a shame because it is well explained in the second edition Also there is a lack of topics such as more detail on special functions, a discussion of the hypergeometric function, the confluent hypergeometric function. The various forms of Bessel functions, Spherical Harmonics and many others. All of which are essential topics. Neither is there any discussion of Green Functions A third volume covering these topics in the same structured manner would be most welcome So definitely worth buying as your second book in mathematical methods but defintely could do with more coverage of other important topics,