Softcover

ISBN 10: 023027479X ISBN 13: 9780230274792

Publisher: Palgrave, 2011

This text teaches maths in a step-by-step fashion – ideal for students on first-year engineering and pre-degree courses.

- Hundreds of examples and exercises, the majority set in an applied engineering context so that you immediately see the purpose of what you are learning
- Introductory chapter revises indices, fractions, decimals, percentages and ratios
- Fully worked solutions to every problem on the companion website at www.palgrave.com/engineering/singh plus searchable glossary, e-index, extra exercises, extra content and more!

About the Author:

Kuldeep Singh is Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at the School of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He teaches mathematics to a wide range of engineering and science students.

Review:

Online reviews:

Very clear. Concise. A joy to learn from. I can't be more happy with a book that allows such depth to be absorbed.- Amazon reviewe

rThis book has been my trusted reference since its first edition and is the best book on the topic that I have ever encountered. It takes you from a round-up of 'the stuff from school' all the way to differential equations; but in contrast to other books, you don't get lost on the way. Every chapter is well structured and full of great explanations, examples and illustrations, as well as related to real-world engineering problems; this makes it extra fun to work through. An amazing piece of work! - Amazon reviewer

A brilliant book very well written, definitely outstanding in the field of instruction on basic and advanced maths. The author has the great ability to explain in great detail, and the text, walks the student step by step, through each and every process. Never have I seen such a splendid approach to mathematics...I highly recommend this book for the desk of each High School student, and Advanced Engineering student, or any student, who is required to know maths, from basic to advanced levels. - Barnes & Noble reviewer Published reviews of the first edition: 'The unique quality of this book is the wealth of examples applying the mathematical techniques taught here. These examples span mechanics, aerodynamics, electronics, engineering, fluid dynamics and other areas of applied mathematics. These are not just the usual examples involving differential equations and equations of motion, but real and thoughtful applications that will be relevant to the student.' - Jill Russell, Open University, UK

.'If you teach a first year mathematics module to a diverse engineering group, this book should be at the top of your list for consideration as a core text. It aims to encourage their [the students] learning through setting the mathematics within the context of engineering examples. With its very readable text it is suitable for both self-study and as support for a taught module. The book covers the requirements of most first year engineering mathematics modules with a fairly gentle reminder of arithmetic and algebra by way of introduction. Examples are drawn from such diverse subjects as electricity, control theory, heat flow, structures, fluid mechanics, signal processing, thermodynamics etc with the largest group being from mechanics. The examples are simple enough to be understood by most engineering students but sufficiently specific to allow students to see that mathematics is relevant to their own engineering discipline. I liked the presentation of the text - the questions posed to the reader, the full labelling in diagrams and the indication to students of the discipline of the examples. Helpful extra information is occasionally provided in subscript format to indicate the method used to move from one line to the next.' - Dr Ian Taylor, Faculty of Engineering at The University of Ulster, Engineering Subject Centre, Northern Ireland