Reddit reviews Engineering Mathematics

You said you don't know how to deal with properties of functions and such. In that case, this book is great because a) it's very easy to use b) it's free. Understanding math properly takes some time. It takes long minutes/hours/days of cold-blooded contemplation. But if you simply want to learn the techniques and get decent grades in an engineering class you could probably look into books like Engineering Mathematics by Stroud/Booth. It starts with lessons on how to add/subtract and takes you all the way to multi-variable calculus if I remember correctly. No proofs here.

I think it's a year and a half undergrad math for the kind of people i went to undergrad with (who were very motivated and well prepared). You could look at a couple Math for Engineers books the Stroud book is pretty gentle: https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Mathematics-K-Stroud/dp/0831134704/

and Riley/Bence/Hobson is more rigorous, i collected a list of the more rigorous all in 1 texts: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/5sr5bb/advice_career_change_engineer_to_math_phd/ddhlec0/

> calculus for engineers

There are a few different books with that title or similar. I kind of like the one by Briggs. If you're of more engineering mindset (as opposed to rigorous mathematician), you may appreciate K.A.Stroud's "Engineering Mathematics" http://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Mathematics-K-Stroud/dp/0831134704

(If that is not clickable, the last segment is the ISBN).

You should be able to find a downloadable version or get an earlier edition very cheap. That book has methodical graduated drills that will embed the concepts intuitively without going into tedious proofs. It covers a lot of turf, with very practical focus. I'm a programmer with engineering background, and I find Stroud's books more useful and way more fun than the usual Apostol, Spivak, Courant, etc touted by math majors.

The first one is this brand new book I find on a university bookshop in a sleepy town in another ASEAN country. I know this sounds stupid and some people find it extremely boring and tedious, but I enjoyed math. This engineering mathemathics book is very heavy (+/- 3kgs), which is half of my traveling bag in term of weight.

Never actually used any of the Stroud's book before, I am impressed by the depth and width of the topic he is trying to cover in this edition. This is enlightening to me, because when you are solving math problems (Which, believe me there are more than I can finish on my trip) you stop talking to yourself and start to listen to yourself. Poetic, I know, but we're all a bit crazy.

And the other book I read for leisure is Helter Skelter. I know this might sounds a little bit off, but I am actually a fan of Manson's work. He is genius (to an extent), delusional, extremely charismatic, and consistently insane. I am a hippie, and I openly admit that, and Manson, in his own way kill the hippie community growth by capitalizing on the ignorance of a generation and the maturation of an era. Oh, and, of course, they were brought to justice at the end, that was sort of the main story line they are trying to sell.

http://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Mathematics-K-A-Stroud/dp/0831134704/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=05GTV6C48KY4RJSHCK3W

Hey,

I didn't apply too much calculus in my undergraduate degree, which I found disappointing because I really enjoy solving problems using calculus. You will definitely need to apply calculus in quantum mechanics and statistical thermodynamics courses, which every degree will include. Whether you are struggling with mathematics in general, or calculus specifically, I highly recommend the book Engineering Mathematics by K.A. Stroud. This covers ALL of the mathematics you will apply during your chemistry degree: basic calculus, vectors, matrices etc; it also covers more advanced topics such as solving partial differential equations (required for the study of higher-level quantum mechanics). It is beautifully written with tons of problems and walk-through solutions, and it assumes almost no prior knowledge of mathematics (it begins with describing how to apply arithmetic operations correctly). I urge you to buy this book as it will definitely relieve your fear of calculus, and you will use it throughout your degree course from first to final year.

https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Mathematics-K-Stroud/dp/0831134704/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1536786947&sr=8-1&keywords=engineering+mathematics

The books Engineering Mathematics and Advanced Engineering Mathematics are fantastic self-teaching texts which will take you from basic arithmetic to complex analysis in a series of frame-by-frame "programmes". They will reinforce what prior knowledge you do have (allowing you to brush up on important algebra, for example), while gently and swiftly bringing you through trig, pre-calc, and then calculus. All of that is in the first volume (which also has matrix algebra, probability, and statistics). You may not need the second volume, but it's just as good for the same reasons. I've found that it's basically impossible to be confused by these books. They make sure you learn.

It was probably Engineering Mathematics by Stroud and Booth.

Edit: There's also Advanced Engineering Mathematics.