Integral Transforms in Science and Engineering: 11 (Mathematical Concepts and Methods in Science and Engineering) - Hardcover

Wolf, K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0306392518 ISBN 13: 9780306392511

Publisher: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, 1979

Synopsis

Integral transforms are among the main mathematical methods for the solution of equations describing physical systems, because, quite generally, the coupling between the elements which constitute such a system-these can be the mass points in a finite spring lattice or the continuum of a diffusive or elastic medium-prevents a straightforward "single-particle" solution. By describing the same system in an appropriate reference frame, one can often bring about a mathematical uncoupling of the equations in such a way that the solution becomes that of noninteracting constituents. The "tilt" in the reference frame is a finite or integral transform, according to whether the system has a finite or infinite number of elements. The types of coupling which yield to the integral transform method include diffusive and elastic interactions in "classical" systems as well as the more common quantum-mechanical potentials. The purpose of this volume is to present an orderly exposition of the theory and some of the applications of the finite and integral transforms associated with the names of Fourier, Bessel, Laplace, Hankel, Gauss, Bargmann, and several others in the same vein. The volume is divided into four parts dealing, respectively, with finite, series, integral, and canonical transforms. They are intended to serve as independent units. The reader is assumed to have greater mathematical sophistication in the later parts, though.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306392518
• ISBN 13: 9780306392511
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 489