Problems in Applied Mathematics
Selections from SIAM Review
Published on 31. December 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
623 pages
978-0-89871-259-9 (ISBN)
Description
People in all walks of life - and perhaps mathematicians especially - delight in working on problems for the sheer pleasure of meeting a challenge. The problem section of SIAM Review has always provided such a challenge for mathematicians. The section was started to offer classroom instructors and their students as well as other interested problemists, a set of problems - solved or unsolved - illustrating various applications of mathematics. In many cases the unsolved problems were eventually solved. Problems in Applied Mathematics is a compilation of 380 of SIAM Review's most interesting problems dating back to the journal's inception in 1959.
The problems are classified into 22 broad categories including Series, Special Functions, Integrals, Polynomials, Probability, Combinatorics, Matrices and Determinants, Optimization, Inequalities, Ordinary Differential Equations, Boundary Value Problems, Asymptotics and Approximations, Mechanics, Graph Theory, and Geometry.
SIAM is offering an incentive to help reduce the backlog of unsolved problems: every person who submits the first received acceptable solution to any unsolved problem in the book will receive one SIAM book of his or her choice.
The problems are classified into 22 broad categories including Series, Special Functions, Integrals, Polynomials, Probability, Combinatorics, Matrices and Determinants, Optimization, Inequalities, Ordinary Differential Equations, Boundary Value Problems, Asymptotics and Approximations, Mechanics, Graph Theory, and Geometry.
SIAM is offering an incentive to help reduce the backlog of unsolved problems: every person who submits the first received acceptable solution to any unsolved problem in the book will receive one SIAM book of his or her choice.
Reviews / Votes
'This outstanding collection of instructive problems is organized into twenty-two broad sections such as probability, combinatorics, series, special functions, and so forth. Most of the problems include motivational material describing how the problem arose; the solutions, some of which approach the status of short papers, are accessible to a wide audience (say at the level of the American Mathematical Monthly). Solutions generally include references to further literature and pertinent comments by Klamkin. There is something in this volume for everyone, and is a welcome addition to the problems literature.' American Mathematics MonthlyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 248 mm
Width: 173 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
979 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-89871-259-9 (9780898712599)
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Content
Chapter 1: Mechanics
Chapter 2: Electrical Resistance
Chapter 3: Probability
Chapter 4: Combinatorics
Chapter 5: Series
Chapter 6: Special Functions
Chapter 7: Ordinary Differential Equations
Chapter 8: Partial Differential Equations
Chapter 9: Definite Integrals
Chapter 10: Integral Equations
Chapter 11: Matrices and Determinants
Chapter 12: Numerical A
Chapter 13: Inequalities
Chapter 14: Optimization
Chapter 15: Graph Theory
Chapter 16: Geometry
Chapter 17: Polynomials
Chapter 18: Simultaneous Equations
Chapter 19: Identities
Chapter 20: Zeros
Chapter 21: Functional Equations
Chapter 22: Miscellaneous
Appendix.
Chapter 2: Electrical Resistance
Chapter 3: Probability
Chapter 4: Combinatorics
Chapter 5: Series
Chapter 6: Special Functions
Chapter 7: Ordinary Differential Equations
Chapter 8: Partial Differential Equations
Chapter 9: Definite Integrals
Chapter 10: Integral Equations
Chapter 11: Matrices and Determinants
Chapter 12: Numerical A
Chapter 13: Inequalities
Chapter 14: Optimization
Chapter 15: Graph Theory
Chapter 16: Geometry
Chapter 17: Polynomials
Chapter 18: Simultaneous Equations
Chapter 19: Identities
Chapter 20: Zeros
Chapter 21: Functional Equations
Chapter 22: Miscellaneous
Appendix.