Mathematical Methods for Physicists 7th Edition  (English, Paperback, George Arfken)

Published in the year 2012, this seventh edition of Mathematical Methods For Physicists provides the readers with key insights into the fundamentals of mathematics that are vital for aspiring physicists and engineers.

Summary Of The Book

Mathematical Methods For Physicists provides aspiring engineers and scientists with key insights into mathematical concepts that they may need to understand as elementary researchers and students. The authors have ensured that the first chapter covers all the vital concepts needed by the readers to understand the latter chapters. This seventh edition consists of mathematical relations and proofs that are of great importance in the field of Physics.

In total, there are 23 chapters in this book. Some chapters include Partial Differential Equations, More Special Functions, Ordinary Differential Equations, Tensors and Differential Forms, and Probability and Statistics. The authors have included several problems in each chapter, with the intent of making this edition interactive and enhancing the problem-solving skills of the readers. They have also added clear-cut diagrams to explain crucial concepts better.

Although this seventh edition has the same features as its predecessor, it presents the readers with a more balanced guide into theory, examples, and explanation. This edition comprises updated notations, better organization, and a larger range of problems, based on several difficulty levels. The authors have also provided simple definitions for important concepts, along with detailed explanations of theorems and proofs.

This book also comprises up-to-date examples, which will help the readers to grasp the concepts faster. Owing to its problem solving approach and application-oriented study of theorems, Mathematical Methods For Physicists is a surefire guide for students to achieve success academically and professionally.

About The Authors

George Arfken is an author and physicist.

Apart from this book, Arfken has written University Physics, and Essential Mathematical Methods For Physicists.
Arfken completed his undergraduate degree in Engineering from Yale University in 1943, where he also finished his master’s in Physics. He also earned a doctoral degree from Yale University in 1950. He served as a Professor of Physics at Miami University for almost three decades. He was also the Chair of the Physics Department at Miami University from 1956-1972. Arfken currently holds the position of an Emeritus Professor at Miami University.

Hans Weber is an author.

Weber completed his doctoral degree from Frankfurt in 1965. He currently serves as the Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics at the University of Virginia. His main areas of research interest include the role played by spontaneous chiral symmetry breakdown in chiral and QCD quark models, gauge field theory, and quark dynamics in baryon resonances.