The International Dictionary of Applied Mathematics

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TN our swift paced world the science of mathematics is making possible such marvels as the climb towards outer space, use of atomic energy, and amazing new machines for industry and the home. Here for every use, defined and explained in one comprehensive volu me, are the terms and methods of application of mathematics to thirty-two great fields of science and engineering. Each has been prepared by one or more specialists in a subject-area of applied mathematics that ensures authoritative selection and most careful presentation. All those basic definitions and methods from pure mathematics, as well as from science and engineering, so necessary to an understanding of the mathematical applications are included to make this book unparalled for day-to-day reference. Its effective cross referencing system knits together this vast fund of information, making instantly available the fundamental definitions and practical applications of any chosen subject. The bridging of language... Tovább

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TN our swift paced world the science of mathematics is making possible such marvels as the climb towards outer space, use of atomic energy, and amazing new machines for industry and the home. Here for every use, defined and explained in one comprehensive volu me, are the terms and methods of application of mathematics to thirty-two great fields of science and engineering. Each has been prepared by one or more specialists in a subject-area of applied mathematics that ensures authoritative selection and most careful presentation. All those basic definitions and methods from pure mathematics, as well as from science and engineering, so necessary to an understanding of the mathematical applications are included to make this book unparalled for day-to-day reference. Its effective cross referencing system knits together this vast fund of information, making instantly available the fundamental definitions and practical applications of any chosen subject. The bridging of language boundaries, as the modern scientist increasingly pursues originál reading, has been fully met by the inclusion of foreign language equivalents of terms in this book. Four indices-Germán, Russian, French, and Spanish-are helpfully listed with their English equivalents. In choosing methods to be presented in this book the contributors have been guided consistently by a single criterion-to select those concepts and approaches which are most widely used in applied mathematics and which have proved most fruitful in their results. Thus, in view of widespread present-day use of machine computation, the subject of numerical analysis has been developed so as to emphasize the methods used in the programming of problems for solution by digital computers. Other more recent approaches emphasized include an extensive treatment of tensor analysis, development of quantum mechanics from both a relativistic and nonrelativistic point of view, the applications of topology in the definitions of electrical networks, and the extensive use of dynamical analogies in solving problems in acoustics and mechanics. Since the primary objective of the book is to provide necessary information on scientific and engineering problems, empirical relationships have been cited wherever analytical approaches have not been elaborated. The broad rangé of coverage, the wide scope given to each area and the number of contributions included among the more than 8,000 entries in this volume bring to those of many disciplines-from physicist to chemist, from aeronautical engineer to metallurgist-an invaluable aid for ready use in the laboratory, plánt or office wherever mathematical applications are needed today. 982 Vissza