Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering: A Comprehensive Guide 3rd Edition

A classic for every right reason! Would recommend this to any freshman aiming to study physics at the post grad level and looking to get ahead of future classes. Well written, with a plethora of great problem sets to anchor your journey towards deeper understanding of fundamental physics concepts! Worth every dollar!

I am very pleased to have both this and the student guide in my library. I am planning on getting the etextbook as well for convenience in carrying around. The book itself is one of the (physically) heaviest books I own!

I am very pleased with the book, the good quality of the packaging and delivery.Keep it up!!

I am a graduate student in Biochemistry with a bachelors in applied math and I wanted to go back and review a lot of math techniques before I totally forgot them. So I started looking at my old math texts and saw that for what I wanted, many of them were far to dense for a quick review.So I started searching Amazon and purchased this text along with both of Stroud's texts and I am glad I did. Stroud's texts provide easy to follow examples while Riley's text provides a more rigorous concise presentation of the topics. I find myself reading Riley's text first and if I can not quite understand the topic, I then go to Stroud's for some easier to follow examples. Fortunately, they include many of the same topics.Thus in my opinion, Riley's is a great text as a reference and for reviewing a topic if you are a little rusty. It is not a good text if you are trying to learn something for the first time or for self study.

This is a wonderfully written reference for any math class. Abstract topics are explained in a manner in which Engineers easily pick them up. I went through my entire BS pretending to understand math and since we started using this book for my entry level graduate class, I ACTUALLY feel like I understand some of this stuff.If your instructor recommends this book, props to him, and lucky you!If you just like math and wound up here without being forced to buy this book, I would get it anyway because its so good.

This is probably the best math methods book out there. I'm only confused by its characterization as an undergraduate-level book. It is definitely graduate level, particularly in later chapters starting with DE's and complex analysis applications. My guess it is so lucidly well-written, and with available solutions that it is perfectly accessible to senior undergraduates as well!

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I wish I had the RHB (Riley, Hobson, and Bence), when I was in engineering school. Alas, I was born too early—a few decades too early. We used Kreyszig, which was good. But in my opinion, RHB's approach, style, and tone is better for the young engineering (and physics) students.