Essential Math Skills for Engineers

Just the math skills you need to excel in the study or practice of engineering

Good math skills are indispensable for all engineers regardless of their specialty, yet only a relatively small portion of the math that engineering students study in college mathematics courses is used on a frequent basis in the study or practice of engineering. That's why Essential Math Skills for Engineers focuses on only these few critically essential math skills that students need in order to advance in their engineering studies and excel in engineering practice.

Essential Math Skills for Engineers features concise, easy-to-follow explanations that quickly bring readers up to speed on all the essential core math skills used in the daily study and practice of engineering. These fundamental and essential skills are logically grouped into categories that make them easy to learn while also promoting their long-term retention. Among the key areas covered are:
* Algebra, geometry, trigonometry, complex arithmetic, and differential and integral calculus
* Simultaneous, linear, algebraic equations
* Linear, constant-coefficient, ordinary differential equations
* Linear, constant-coefficient, difference equations
* Linear, constant-coefficient, partial differential equations
* Fourier series and Fourier transform
* Laplace transform
* Mathematics of vectors

With the thorough understanding of essential math skills gained from this text, readers will have mastered a key component of the knowledge needed to become successful students of engineering. In addition, this text is highly recommended for practicing engineers who want to refresh their math skills in order to tackle problems in engineering with confidence.

This book provides the mathematical basics for any student of Engineering and Physics in either beginning or senior levels to efficiently relearn or brush up on the math skills required of them at all levels of study such as: trigonometry, and differential and integral calculus. This book is distinguished by the concentration of applied engineering mathematics most relevant to every-day engineering practice, as opposed to the numerous textbooks that are not suitable for extraction of the most relevant mathematical tools and concepts. Review of Essential Math Skills is based on the idea that in order to be a good engineer, one must also be a very good applied mathematician. If  students have poor mathematical skills, they cannot hope to understand the highly technical analysis of engineering systems that they are supposed to be designing. This book offers the solid and basic math skills that all engineers and students of engineering need to have at their fingertips for immediate and day-to-day use. Some of the five topics covered include: solution of simultaneous, linear, algebraic equations, solution of linear, constant coefficient ordinary differential equations, solution of linear, constant coefficient difference equations, solution of linear, and constant coefficient partial differential equations.