CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulas

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The 33rd edition of this remarkable title, first published almost 90 years ago, retains the general layout of the 30th edition (CH, Oct'96, 34-0978). At over 800 pages, it is still a very large volume, with over 6,000 entries that provide formulas, tables, figures, and detailed descriptions. In the editions since the revamping of the 30th edition, major changes worth noting are the additions of game theory and voting power, heuristic search techniques, quadratic fields, reliability, risk analysis, and decision rules, to name just a few additions from the 31st edition; in the 32nd edition, a new chapter titled "Mathematical Formulas from the Sciences" was added that includes a total of 26 topics, ranging from astrophysics to finance; this chapter was further expanded in the 33rd edition to include biology, chemistry and radar. Also added in the 32nd edition are new new materials in cellular automata, knot theory, music, quaternions, and rational trigonometry. In all editions many tables have been updated and streamlined. The publisher and the editor aim to update regularly with the most current information; input is solicited on the book's website, which also contains errata (as of this writing, this website was not updated with the 33rd edition). This resource is also available digitally on the Proquest platform.
--N. Zdravkovska, University of Maryland