This is the fourth edition of a successful, comprehensive handbook for scientists, engineers, and students. The handbook presents, in a lucid and accessible manner, classical areas such as algebra, geometry and analysis, as well as current research areas such as discrete mathematics, optimization, computer science and numerical analysis. It includes definitions, results, formulas, graphs, and tables, while emphasizing concepts and methods with applications in technology and science.
Fourth edition sold over 1400 copies in North America.
For the fifth edition the chapter on Optimization has been enlarged and the chapters on Probability Theory and Statistics have been carefully revised.
Includes over 450 graphs, figures and illustrations. There is an extensive, thoroughly cross-referenced index which lists over 1,400 terms.