Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Summary
The ideas that motivated me to write this text, and my philosophy about what it should contain and how it should be used, were expounded at length in the Preface to Volume 1. Here I would like only to reemphasise that, in order to derive optimum benefit from this book, it is essential for the reader to work through the problems at the end of each chapter. This is the only way of making sure that the material covered has been absorbed. The problems are relatively few in number, so that it should be reasonable to attempt them all.
I wish to express my thanks to the various people who have offered me advice concerning the topics covered in this volume. They include David Acheson, Ian Aitchison, David Andrews, Peter Clifford, Gideon Engler, Raymond Hide, Moshe Kugler, Elaine Lyons, John Roe, Lee Segal, Robert Thorne and Andrew Tolley, as well as the Jesus College first-year physics students of 1996 who read and commented on the text.
I am most grateful to Brenda Willoughby for her sterling work in typing this document, and to Irmgard Smith for producing the beautiful diagrams.
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- All You Wanted to Know about Mathematics but Were Afraid to AskMathematics for Science Students, pp. xv - xviPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998
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