Spiegel, Phd Murray R. & Lipschutz, Phd Seymour & Liu, Phd John Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables

This handbook supplies a collection of mathematical formulas and tables which will be valuable to students
and research workers in the fields of mathematics, physics, engineering, and other sciences. Care has been
taken to include only those formulas and tables which are most likely to be needed in practice, rather than
highly specialized results which are rarely used. It is a “user-friendly” handbook with material mostly rooted
in university mathematics and scientific courses. In fact, the first edition can already be found in many libraries
and offices, and it most likely has moved with the owners from office to office since their college times. Thus,
this handbook has survived the test of time (while most other college texts have been thrown away).
This new edition maintains the same spirit as the second edition, with the following changes. First of all,
we have deleted some out-of-date tables which can now be easily obtained from a simple calculator, and
we have deleted some rarely used formulas. The main change is that sections on Probability and Random
Variables have been expanded with new material. These sections appear in both the physical and social
sciences, including education.
Topics covered range from elementary to advanced. Elementary topics include those from algebra,
geometry, trigonometry, analytic geometry, probability and statistics, and calculus. Advanced topics include
those from differential equations, numerical analysis, and vector analysis, such as Fourier series, gamma
and beta functions, Bessel and Legendre functions, Fourier and Laplace transforms, and elliptic and other
special functions of importance. This wide coverage of topics has been adopted to provide, within a single
volume, most of the important mathematical results needed by student and research workers, regardless of
their particular field of interest or level of attainment.