The purpose of Modern Mathematical Methods for Physicists and Engineers is to help grad-uate and advanced undergraduate students of the physical sciences and engineering acquire a sufficient mathematical background to make intelligent use of modem computational and analytical methods.This book responds to my students'repeated requests for a mathematical methods text with a modem point of view and choice of topics.

Preface

1 FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTATION

 1.1 Introduction

　1.2 Representations of Numbers

1.2.1 Integers

　　1.2.2 Rational Numbers and Real Numbers

　　1.2.3 Representations of Numbers as Text

　　1.2.4 Exercises for Section 1.2

　1.3 Finite Floating-point Representations

　　1.3.1 Simple Cases

　　1.3.2 Practical Floating-point Representations

　　1.3.3 Approaching Zero or Infinity Gracefully

　　1.3.4 Exercises for Section 1.3

　1.4 Floating-point Computation

　　1.4.1 Relative Error; Machine Epsilon

　　1.4.2 Rounding

　　1.4.3 Floating-point Addition and Subtraction

　　1.4.4 Exercises for Section 1.4

　1.5 Propagation of Errors

　　1.5.1 General Formulas

　　1.5.2 Examples of Error Propagation

　　1.5.3 Estimates of the Mean and Variance

　　1.5.4 Exercises for Section 1.5

　1.6 Bibliography and Endnotes

　　1.6.1 Bibliography

　　1.6.2 Endnotes

2 SETS AND MAPPINGS

　2.1 Introduction

　2.2 Basic Definitions

　　2.2.1 Sets

　　2.2.2 Mappings

　　2.2.3 Axiom of Choice

　　2.2.4 Cartesian Products

　　2.2.5 Equivalence and Equivalence Classes

　　2.2.6 Exercises for Section 2.2

　2.3 Union, Intersection, and Complement

　　2.3.1 Unions of Sets

　　2.3.2 Intersections of Sets

　　2.3.3 Relative Complement

　　2.3.4 De Morgan''s Laws

　　2.3.5 Exercises for Section 2.3

　2.4 Infinite Sets

　　2.4.1 Basic Properties of Infinite Sets

　　2.4.2 Induction and Recursion

　　2.4.3 Countable Sets

　　2.4.4 Countable Unions and Intersections

　　2.4.5 Uncountable Sets

　　2.4.6 Exercises for Section 2.4

　2.5 Ordered and Partially Ordered Sets

　　2.5.1 Partial Orderings

　　2.5.2 Orderings; Upper and Lower Bounds

　　2.5.3 Maximal Chains

　　2.5.4 Exercises for Section 2.5

　2.6 Bibliography

3 EVALUATION OF FUNCTIONS

　3.1 Introduction

　3.2 Sensitivity and Condition Number

　　3.2.1 Definitions

　　3.2.2 Evaluation of Polynomials

　　3.2.3 Multiple Roots of Polynomials

　　3.2.4 Exercises for Section 3.2

　3.3 Recursion and Iteration

　　3.3.1 Finding Roots by Bisection

　　3.3.2 Newton-Raphson Method

　　3.3.3 Evaluation of Series

　　3.3.4 Exercises for Section 3.3

　3.4 Introduction to Numerical Integration

　　3.4.1 Rectangle Rules

　　3.4.2 Trapezoidal Rule

　　3.4.3 Local and Global Errors

　　3.4.4 Exercises for Section 3.4

　3.5 Solution of Differential Equations

　　3.5.1 Euler''s Method

　　3.5.2 Truncation Error of Euler's Method

　　3.5.3 Stability Analysis of Euler's Method

　　3.5.4 Selected Finite-difference Methods

　　3.5.5 Exercises for Section 3.5

　3.6 Bibliography

4 GROUPS, RINGS, AND FIELDS

　4.1 Introduction

　4.2 Groups

　　4.2.1 Axioms

　　4.2.2 Two-element Group

　　4.2.3 Orbits and Cosets

　　4.2.4 Cyclic Groups

　　4.2.5 Dihedral Groups

　　4.2.6 Cubic Groups

　　4.2.7 Continuous Groups

　　4.2.8 Classes of Conjugate Elements

　　4.2.9 Exercises for Section 4.2

　4.3 Group Homomorphisms

　　4.3.1 Definitions and Basic Properties

　　4.3.2 Normal Subgroups

　　4.3.3 Direct Product Groups

　　4.3.4 Exercises for Section 4.3

　4.4 *Symmetric Groups

　　4.4.1 Permutations

　　4.4.2 Cayley''s Theorem

　　4.4.3 Cyclic Permutations

　　4.4.4 Even and Odd Permutations

　　4.4.5 Exercises for Section 4.4

　4.5 Rings and Integral Domains

　　4.5.1 Axioms and Examples

　　4.5.2 Basic Properties of Rings

　　4.5.3 Rational Numbers

　　4.5.4 *Ring Homomorphisms

　　4.5.5 Exercises for Section 4.5

　4.6 Fields

　　4.6.1 Axioms and Examples

　　4.6.2 *Galois Fields

　　4.6.3 Exercises for Section 4.6

　4.7 Bibliography

5 VECTOR SPACES

6 LINEAR MAPPINGS I

7 LINEAR FUNCTIONALS

8 INNER PRODUCTS AND NORMS

9 LINEAR MAPPINGS II

10 CONVERGENCE IN NORMED VECTOR SPACES

11 GROUP REPRESENTATIONS

12 SPECIAL FUNCTIONS

APPENDIX A INDEX OF NOTATION

APPENDIX B AFFINE MAPPINGS

APPENDIX C PSEUDO-UNITARY SPACES

APPENDIX D REMAINDER TERM

APPENDIX E BOLZANO-WEIERSTRAB THEOREM

APPENDIX F WEIERSTRAB APPROXIMATION THEOREM

Index