CRC Standard Probability and Statistics Tables and Formulae
by Daniel Zwillinger, Stephen Kokoska
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Good Complement to Statistics Texts
This reference is a good complement to a collection of standard statistics texts. Often, those texts have good explanations of their concepts. But then provide only limited tables of commonly encountered distributions. Part of this may be that to those authors, such tables let them add relatively little value. To an author, her value is in her origina musings, and not necessarily in filling the latter part of her book with reams of tables.

Thus, there is a natural inclination of statistics authors to only provide a modicum of tables. The barest minimum! Well, your answer to this might be to amass several texts, so that hopefully, the tables you need can be found in one of these.

An alternative is to get this book. Not a text, but a reference manual. Though the editors thoughtfully precede the tables with brief explanations of their usage and some cogent examples. You will find here the most commonly needed distributions in an easy to find and use format. ... Read more

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CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae, 31st Edition
by Daniel Zwillinger
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Best reference you could have
I am a graduate student in engineering, I did my undergraduate in physics and mathematics.This is by far the number one book that I would suggest to anyone in any science or math.I find the most useful sections are the table of integrals, derivatives, trig identities, geometric formulae, physical constants, and unit conversions (all lists are quite complete).I have a number of other references, including this book's big brother, the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, but I find this one easier to use for most applications.I actually have a much older edition that my dad gave me when he was studying engineering, but I've looked through the new one, and it looks as good as the old.I'm actually buying a second copy to have at the lab.

A solid improvement over previous versions
This is worthy revision of an English-language classic, and the first since the 25th that has enticed me to purchase it.

This is a solid improvement over previous versions, but I found the typesetting sometimes produced a slightly scattered feel.The reorganisation of topics can be a little hard to navigate, e.g. I found the topics on probability and statistics a little inconveniently laid out, and things like single vs multiple dimension versions of the Newton method not being in the same place or referring to each other.

If you read German or Russian I would recommend Bronstein and Semendjajew"Taschenbuch der Mathematik" over the CRC Handbook.It combines the Russian obsession with depth and thoroughnesswith a German sense of order and structure.

Good Reference for the abstract based mathmatican
The reference covers many topics covered in higher mathmatics. Extensive list of definitions, theorems, formulas for many topics in mathematics - algebra, discrete, analysis, geometry, continous mathematics, many classifications for functions, and statistics. Some of the higher advanced topics include graph theory, abstract mathematics and differential geometry. The material presented is geared towards the serious mathematican than an undergraduate student or basic math user (why 4 star rating). For an undergraduate student, buy Handbook of Mathematics and Computational Science. If you are still interested in exploring mathematics, buy the book!! ... Read more

Isbn: 1584882913
Sales Rank: 29847
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Handbook of Mathematical Functions, With Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables,
by Milton, Ed. Abramowitz
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Once Great
I probably would never have gotten my PhD without this book, and it is a stupendous classic.Nowdays, though, my first resort is always Maple or Mathematica, with their manifold capabilities.I still find it useful for trying to understand what those programs are doing by way of simplification (or, more commonly, not doing).Eventually Maple and Mathematica will figure out that they need to couple a powerful explanatory capability to their marvelous algorithms, and this book will become truly obsolete - but that date is not yet here as of 2004.

Four stars only because it has been partly overcome by history. 5 Plus for its historical importance.

un grimoire mathématique unique en son genre!
Physicien, Handbook of mathematical functions est pratiquement mon livre de chevet. je le consulte bien plus qu' aucun autre document de physique, même plus que les revues spécialisées dans mon domaîne! L' un des apports les plus importants de ce livre dans mon cheminement est qu' il m' a permi de concevoir des algorithmes numériques pour presque toutes les fonctions spéciales dont j' avais besoin pendant mes recherches, notamment les fonctions Beta et Polygamma d' arguments complexes qui interviennent très fréquemment dans les calculs de susceptibilités électroniques dans les problèmes de supraconductivité. Bien des collègues et amis, travaillant notamment en chimie-physique et même en biologie, reconnaissent que ce livre est un tout pour qui a besoin des mathématiques dans ses recherches. Dire que sa mouture de base fut conçue en 1964!

Improved my insight and understanding each time used
I have enjoyed using this book over quite some time. Its comprehensiveness promised to never let me down. It did keep the promise since the late seventies. Whenever I needed a clearer picture, perhaps a reason why a function did behave the way it did, I found the additional clarification here. Glad it exists. ... Read more

Isbn: 0486612724
Sales Rank: 20061
Subjects:  1. Calculus    2. Functions    3. General    4. Mathematics    5. Tables    6. Tables, etc   

Mathematical Handbook for Scientists and Engineers: Definitions, Theorems, and Formulas for Reference and Review
by Granino A. Korn, Theresa M. Korn
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an MBA student says:
I've been searching for a math reference book to use while pursuing an MBA. Much of the math that is used in the classes I'm taking is relatively simple and was more then adequately covered by my undergraduate education. But it has been all been forgotten long ago. This book fits the bill.

Pros: Have been able to find everything I've needed quickly. (Chain rule, logarithms, conditional probability, general solution to quadratic equations.) The explanations are terse but clear.

Cons: Crowed typography, could have used more margins, maybe a choice that was made for this reprint. Sections are number x.y-z, makes it hard to notice when the index refers to a range: x.y-za-zb. The index doesn't always lead directly to the desired section, for instance there is no entry for chain rule, but differentiation takes you right there.

Unfortunately, I'm already through most of the classes where I could have made good use of this book, but for those starting out, this might be a handy reference.

an engineer says: thanks korn and korn
over a period of thirty-plus years, i've benefited countless times from this dizzyingly broad and accurate handbook. it must be seen in that light: handbook.but, as such, there is simply no competition, at least for the engineer doing mathematical evaluations or predicting performance. i myself even find it enjoyable to just read in it. also to remember: it is not a compendium of computer-based techniques; indeed, it is a handbook of actual mathematics. i appreciate this small forum as an opportunity to say: Thanks, K&K.

Excellent but not much "applied"
While it has very good structure and layout, this well organized reference book is much more a teoretical rather than an applied mathematical handbook. It covers many engineering issues, but it doesn't shows practical examples in mechanics, thermodynamics and electrics, like the old good Pipes/Harvill. ... Read more

Isbn: 0486411478
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Schaum's Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables
by Murray R Spiegel
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Useful, convinient, and cheap.
I bought this book when I started studying toward a B.Sc for a price a student can easily pay, and continue using it in work to this day.

Though some science students would require more extensive handbook than this, the majority will be satisfied by this volume - which is convinient to carry.

It contains almost everything I needed, from basics such as trig functions & tables, geometry, and the basics of derivatives & integrals that my memory refuses to cough up on 1st year exams, to advanced material that is convinient to have handy at later stages of study and work.

The only change I would make in this book is it's physical dimensions - half the page size at twice the page count would make it easier to use during exams and next to a computer due to limited table area.

Indispensible for the physicist
A fantastic summation of neccesary mathematics for any engineer or physicist...the only reason for 4 stars is that it's integral table is a little short.

Not as much help as it should be
I bought this book as an aid to EM theory and Quantum Mechanics. I found little really useful stuff. The series expansion didn't have (1+u)^-3/2 for example, or the curl operator in cylindrical and spherical coordinates. The integral table is limited. The authors should look at books like Dwight, for example, and make sure their coverage is more complete. I am disapointed in it. For the money, it should be much better. ... Read more

Isbn: 0070382034
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Handbook of Mathematical, Scientific, and Engineering Formulas, Tables, Functions, Graphs, Transforms
by James Ogden, Max Fogiel
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It meets a need
It does what it promises: deliver the usual tables that meet basic mathematical needs. Trig, logs, exponents, and some miscellany (a little quaint in the era of calculators). I got it as a home reference for integrals, and it's good enough to get me in the right direction. Given it's intended range, I fault it only for weakness in stats and probability.

Hey, the price is right. It's nothing special, but not all of my needs are special. For basic math stuff, this may be the book to get if you can't afford the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.

toomany typos
There are so many typos and errors in the book that I can no longer trust anything I look up in this book. I thought it deserved two stars just for the price.

Get CRCor Jeffrey's instead
No offense but this is probably the most useless book I ever bought.

I own CRC and Jeffrey's reference books and have used them so much the binding is disintergrating. In the meantime Ogden and Fogiel's book hasn'tmoved from my shelf. It's poorly indexed, and the formulas are oftenill-phrased.

Please, if you are a scientist or an engineer, don't buythis book. For the future, for the children, get a better reference book ... Read more

Isbn: 0878915214
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Table of Integrals, Series, and Products
by Alan Jeffrey, Daniel Zwillinger
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Very useful CD-ROM for all numerically inclined scientists and engineers. Produces TeX source code for selected formulas. Multiplatform-ROM for Mac, Windows, and UNIX. ... Read more

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CD-ROM version may not work for you.
The paper version is a real touchstone for the practice of all manner of applied mathematics.The CD-ROM version belongs in the discount bin.Here is why:

1)The CD-ROM is edition 5; but edition 6 has been out for 4 years.

2) The DynaText software, which is needed to read/browse/search the book, is showing signs of age.It works fine on the computers of a decade ago but not necessarily on the machines of today.See the review of J.F.Groote.

The product is advertised as working on Macs but will not work on most Macs.Specifically, it does not seem to work on either G4 or G5 hardware with OS X, even under the so-called "Classic" mode.I believe that the problem is that the browser is shipped as an executable that requires a specific architecture.

It is usable under Windows, but you might need to use one of the backwards-compatibility options to run the installer.

It will not apparently run under any form of Linux, the most recent (and rapidly becoming the most popular) transmogrification of Unix.Again, DynaText is put on the CD-ROM as a binary executable; if you are not using SunOS 4 or 5, Solaris or SGI IRIX 5.2 then you can not use this product.

This software is unusable on mac's and unix systems.
I bought this software hoping that it would help me to find required mathematical formulas faster. At home on my powermac (OSX.1, OS9.2) I only see messed up windows. Furthermore, the formulas are unreadable, using an archaic font. Trying to save the day, I went to my linux machine at work reading "Your operating system, Linux 2.2.19-7.0.1, is not supported by this software. It appears that the software is only suitable for some SUN and SGI machines. It only appears to run properly on a windows machine. From an editor, who I remember, is one of the few persons finding errors in Knuth's TeX system, I expected much better.

A fun book
I bought Gradshteyn & Ryzhik because I had to write an answer to some homework problem in some physics class that I took. The problem had contorted itself into a perverse elliptic integral and its recovery was beyond my means, so I went to the bookstore, looked for something fat and Soviet, and found this gem. I forked over the cash for it, figuring that it was a long-term investment.

I took it home and dutifully plagiarized some of its lines to satisfy my physics professor. For the next few months, that was the mode in which I used this book: read physics problem, translate into elliptic or hypergeometric beast, look up answer in G&R, cover up my tracks, get 9 or 10 points on the problem. Occasionally, I would own up to having looked something up.

The book served its purpose well. Subsequently, I studied some integrals of the spinning top that were more or less right out of Nikiforov's book on special functions (another excellent source for those of you that would like to "earn" a PhD), and G&R stood well by its side. Indeed, I discovered how much fun it was to look up an integral whose complicated solution had been derived elsewhere, and then to look for patterns by analyzing the immediate neighbors of the given integral on the preceding and subsequent lines in G&R.

After I was done with answering questions from physics professors, the book sat on the shelf taking up more room than several of its neighbors put together. Nonetheless, its binding was good, its typesetting clear, and its terse and copious stream of forbidding integral forms was pleasing to the eye.

Some time passed, and one day I asked myself just what would motivate anybody to write such a large collection, so I started rummaging through its pages looking for a pattern. I realized that its organization was excellent (which would explain why I was able to find the answers for my homework), and I also found some sections that were just plain fun. The very beginning lists some sums of infinite series that can be derived during lunch or while waiting for a friend at a cafe (e.g. sum of k^3 = [1/2(n)(n+1)]^2 ). Then one can read about numbers and functions named after Euler, Jacobi, Bernoulli, Catalan... each line, more or less, is cross-referenced, so after you have given up trying to derive that darned product representation of the gamma function, you can go to the book in the library and see how Whittaker did it.

After about 15 years of owning this book, I am nowhere near done with it. If you like math, and you want insurance against being bored, this book just might do the trick. As a bonus, it puts cute matrix stuff in the back (e.g. the "circulant") which one can read when desiring a break from the integrals. I know the book seems expensive, but think of if as spending about two bucks a year on it.

I see that one can now obtain a CDRom version of G&R. An intriguing option, specially because it outputs in TeX; but really, how can anyone resist the large, stubby charm of its paper version?

G&R can help you to deal with members of the opposite sex. I once used it to scare away a girlfriend that was becoming much too annoying, by pretending to be thickly engrossed in the process of memorizing every single integral in the "special functions" chapters. As for my mother, she was particularly proud of me when I showed her that I could actually understand "randomly selected" pages from this book (I don't suppose that I am giving anything away by remarking that books open naturally on sections that have been previously examined).

For those of you that are concerned about home security, G&R is also a weapon. Some people surround themselves with baseball bats or, if they are particularly reckless, a handgun or two... I prefer to keep a fully-loaded G&R by my pillow, which I can hurl at any prowler at a moment's notice. Its shape is surprisingly well adjusted to the hand for the purposes of hurling, and if the covers are bound by a rubber band, the book maintains its shape quite stably as it sails across the room. Sell your Smith & Wesson and buy yourself a Gradshteyn & Ryzhik. You won't regret it. ... Read more

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Handbook of Mathematical Formulas and Integrals
by Alan Jeffrey
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A book no engineer should ever be without!!!
I actually found this book by accident, while just looking through a store.I picked it up and never put it back.One of the things that I have always struggled with, even as a graduate student, is trying to remember all the basic formulas that make your life a lot easier.Sine/Cosine and the natural log equations have always driven me nuts.Starring at a problem thinking to myself "I bet this reduces to something".If you can say the same thing then this book is for you.

Before I would have to look through ten different books to find what I was looking for, but not anymore.I keep this book with me at all times and am never at a loss.

Each chapter is very specific, with a little theory in the beginning, and then the rest is just easy to use formulas.A real life saver when you just want to find something without having to wade through some lengthy derivations.

Hey, its in integral and formula book... what can I say?
Tons and tons of mathematical formulas and integrals ranging from the elementary to the very advanced.The reason I bought this, believe it or not, was because it had the general formula for sums of powers of integers( 1^k + 2^k, + ... + n^k) which I never knew existed untill I purchased it.Anyways... plenty( and I mean plenty!) of useful formulas and integrals which are conveniently marked for easy reference.Here's the listing:

Algebra, Numbers, Geometry, Calculus, Integrals, Inequalities, Ordinary Differential Equations, Partial Diff. Equat., Numerical Methods, Fourier Series and Laplace and Fourier Transforms, Special Functions, and Probability. ... Read more

Isbn: 0123822513
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Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics: Second Edition
by Mathematical SocietyofJapan, Kiyosi Ito
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The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics, as put out by the Mathematical Society of Japan, is as complete and comprehensive an opus as one could wish for, concisely comprising in its two volumes all significant mathematical results, both pure and applied, elementary to advanced. This second edition is, basically, an English version of the acclaimed Japanese third edition. The EDM2, as it is known, succinctly but thoroughly covers math from A to Z, from Niels Henrik Abel and Abelian groups to Witt vectors and Zeta functions. Within its 2,000-plus pages are elegant explanations of diffusion processes, Fourier series, linear operators, and meromorphic functions. There are pages dedicated to quadratic fields and robust and nonparametric methods, and following each section, all the relevant references are listed. In addition, there are appendices with tables of formulas, numerical tables, and statistical tables, journals, publishers, and special notations, articles listed both systematically and alphabetically, plus a name index and an exhaustive subject index that's 231 pages long. It is a quality product--easily accessible, adhering to rigorous standards, and worth the investment for any school or personal math library. --Stephanie Gold ... Read more

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Indispensable.How did I ever get on without it?
If my house were on fire and I had only sufficient time to rescue four books, I would likely grab my four-volume Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics, Second Edition (EDM2).Truly, this is one of the most useful books I own.As testimony to this fact one need only observe that there are more bookmarks protruding from my copy of EDM2 than there are pages (well, almost).

If you are a mathematician, or if mathematics is central to what you do, you will likely appreciate this collection as it contains wonderfully concise yet informative and authoritative entries on nearly every branch of modern mathematics.Need to refresh your memory on Radon-Nikodym derivatives and their properties?No problem.Are you up on Grassman algebras?If not, you can look it up in EDM2.Interested in game theory?It's in there.What about semi groups, elliptic integrals, perturbation theory, lattice theory, Hilbert spaces, projective geometry, integral geometry, measure theory, geometrical optics, and non-standard analysis?All there!

But simply listing the topics covered in EDM2 will not give you an adequate picture of its utility.What is amazing about the book is how much information it can pack into very few pages, yet manage to keep the discussion quite readable.Don't get me wrong; it doesn't read like a Stephen King novel (nor would you want it to).But the entries are self-contained and cogent enough that you can actually learn a good bit about topics that are totally new to you.Of course, you will want to avail yourself of the many cited references to gain a more complete understanding of any given topic, but you will be well on your way to getting acquainted with fundamental definitions and techniques of a hitherto unfamiliar branch of mathematics.

Here are several examples: If you look up "polynomial approximation" you will find a succinct discussion that rigorously defines such terms Bernstein polynomials, Chebyshev system, Haar's condition, degree of approximation, moduli of continuity, approximation by Fourier expansions, trigonometric interpolation, Lagrange interpolation, and orthogonal polynomials, and all in FOUR terse but readable pages, with plenty of references at the end.The entry on "geometric optics" covers Fermat's principle, Gauss mappings, Malus's theorem, and aberration, all in TWO pages.The succinct one-page biography of David Hilbert is followed by a one-page synopsis of Hilbert spaces.In a mere eight pages on function spaces it provides what amounts to a condensed survey of functional analysis, covering norms, dual spaces, Besov spaces, the Sobolev-Besov embedding theorem, Kothe spaces, etc.

Of course, what you will not find in this book is a single proof.Nor will you find up-to-the-minute esoteric theorems.But then I cannot imagine how such a reference could encompass such things; mathematics is far too vast.Nonetheless, EDM2 has amazing breadth and depth for a meager four-volume collection.And it is written with mathematicians in mind, so the discussions are crisp and rigorous.It's exceedingly well done.

The Consumate Personal Mathematics Reference
Prepared by the Mathematical Society of Japan, this two-volume set provides an outstanding reference of mathematics.It is considered by many to be the best available work that is both definitive and encompassing.Treatment is in depth, and presentations assume a solid mathematical background of the reader.This reference is excellent for the researcher working at the doctoral level.Cost of the paperback edition is very reasonable.

best all-round math book for the mathematician's bookshelf
I've been using this book in my work as a mathematician since I bought the first english-language edition in 1984. The second english-language edition is not enormously different to the first, but it is an improvement. Both have been by far the most useful reference on my bookshelf for 18 years. I have always found that the coverage is in-depth and yet comprehensible (with a bit of pen-on-paper work). It's especially useful for accessing results from areas other than my own speciality. I've found the differential geometry coverage literally better than the dozen texts on DG which I have bought. It must be worth more than 100 books on the shelf. Indexing and cross-referencing are both excellent. Historical context is very good. I use this encyclopedia at least 10 times a week. Virtually every definition I need is here, and every important theorem is summarised. ... Read more

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Mathematics Handbook for Science and Engineering
by Lennart Rade, Bertil Westergren
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Excellent Engineering Math Reference
This book has everything (geometry, trig, linear algebra, diff eq, calculus, ...) in a cleanly laid out format.Many figures are provided to clarify definitions.The presentation is clear and concise - usually I do not need to consult another reference for additional details.Out of my math/mechanical engineering book collection, this is probably my favorite book.

Strong Recommend Mathematical Handbook for Science and Eng.
Handbook of Mathematics" contains the fundamental knowledge for Science and Engineer students.I am using the third edition a lot when I do the algorithm performance analysis. Also the niceand big printingstyle is enjoyable to read. It contains anything which a computerprogrammer need to know. ... Read more

Isbn: 3540655697
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Handbook of Mathematics
by I.N. Bronshtein, K.A. Semendyayev, G. Musiol, H. Muehlig, H. Mühlig
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Loaded with Content
This book is exactly what the title says it is; a handbook of mathematical techniques and formulas for scientists and engineers. It is more a handbook than a book on mathematics and assumes a prior knowledge on the subjects covered. Readers of this english version of the Bronshtein should take note that it is a "raw" translation of the german version and so some discussion may not do justice to the theory. This in no way takes away from the fact it is an exceptional book and you'd be hard pressed to find any other book with more mathematical content.

There are several Bronshteins
Bronstein's "Taschenbuch der Mathematik" is a longtime favorite among german science and engineering students. English language readers should be aware however, that there are numerous different editions of this book. Not only were the german editions constantly enlarged and reworked, but there were also two publishers of the same book, one in East Germany (Teubner Verlag), one in West Germany (Harri Deutsch Verlag). Today both of these publishers sell a "Taschenbuch der Mathematik" based on the original Bronstein, yet they are completely different books. The english edition by Springer Verlag advertised above is based on the current Harri Deutsch edition. An english translation of the Teubner edition is now available as the "Oxford Users' Guide to Mathematics" from Oxford University Press. It is mostly considered to be the better 'Bronstein' (even though Teubner and OUP have dropped his name because the new edition was completely rewritten by E. Zeidler).

Clasic
For me it was a remarkable fact, how few of the people in western countries have heard about this handbook. In the east this is probably the most popular mathematical handbook ever. I dont know any eastern european scientist in a field of mathematics, engineering and physics who don't have it. The main reason is it's extensivity and usefulness. In Croatian print it has about 1000 pages in very small format covering all possible parts of applied mathematics up to special functions/markov chains/complex integration/vector algebra. It's "allways in backpack book" and my hot recomandation to any technical scientist. ... Read more

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Handbook of Mathematics and Computational Science
by J. Harris, Horst Stocker, John W. Harris
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Useful but limited and *no bibliographies*!
This handbook covers a range of undergraduate applied mathematics.Besides standard topics: geometry, indefinite and definite integrals, linear algebra, complex variables, etc.; it also covers some discrete math: Boolean algebra as applied to digital circuit design, graphs, etc.; and a bit of programming (including written-out programs implementing some algorithms).But its coverage is just too idiosyncratic to rely on.Its treatment of digital logic is surprisingly long, and its treatment of matrices surprisingly short.Why does it mention the rather specialized topics of fuzzy logic and neural networks?Why doesn't it mention wavelets?Why doesn't it include any material and algorithms on strings (regular expression matching, for example)?

But the worst feature of this book is that it doesn't provide bibliographies for the topic it covers.If you need more detailed treatment of matrices or graphs, where should you go for a fuller treatment?It doesn't help at all.

Very comprehensive reference.
This book is great for students and professionals alike.

The Swiss Army Knife of math books
The best way I can describe this book is that it is as close to a swiss army knife you are going to find in a mathematics book. It has everything from high school math to math for advanced undergraduates and possibly early graduate school in engineering, physical sciences, economics, and mathematics. It also has a few helpful sections on programming in Fortran, C, Pascal, and C++ (although I wouldn't rely on this book to learn those languages). It is a great reference book for scientists and engineers. ... Read more

Isbn: 0387947469
Sales Rank: 49795
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An Introduction to Mathematical Statistics and Its Applications (3rd Edition)
by Richard J. Larsen, Morris L. Marx
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Excellent intro to the mathematics of traditional statistics
The first half of the book begins with basic discrete and continuous probability theory.It continues with thorough overviews of the basic distributions (normal, Poisson, binomial, multinomial, chi-squared and student-T).The focus is on basic probability and variance analysis, though it briefly covers higher-order moments.

The second half of this book is devoted to hypothesis testing and regression.There is an excellent explanation of the mathematical presuppositions of the various classical experimental methodologies ranging from chi-square to t-tests togeneralized likelihood ratio testing.It contains a very nicely organized chapter on general regression analysis, concentrating on the common least squares case under the usual transforms (e.g. exponential, logistic, etc.).

Like many books in mathematics, this introduction starts from first principles in the topic it's introducing, but assumes some "mathematical sophistication".In this case, it assumes you're comfortable with basic definition-example-theorem style and that you understand the basics of multivariate differential equations.I was a math and computer science undergrad who did much better in abstract algebra and set theory than analysis and diff eqs, but I found this book extremely readable.I couldn't have derived the proofs, but I could follow them because they were written as clearly as anything I've ever read in mathematics.I found the explanation of the central limit theorem and the numerous normal approximation theorems for sampling to be exceptionally clear.

The examples were both illuminating and entertaining.One of the beauties of statistics is that the examples are almost always interesting real-world problems, in this case ranging from biological (e.g. significance testing for cancer clusters) to man-made (e.g. Poisson models of football scoring) to physical (e.g. loaded dice).The examples tied directly to the techniques being explored.The exercises were more exercise-like in this book than in some math books where they're a dumping ground for material that wouldn't fit into the body of the text.This book has clearly been tuned over many years of classroom use with real students.

I read this book because I found I couldn't understand the applied statistics I was reading in machine learning and Bayesian data analysis research papers in my field (computational linguistics).In paticular, I wanted the background to be able to tackle books such as Hastie et al.'s "Elements of Statistical Learning" or Gelman et al.'s "Bayesian Data Analysis", both of which pretty much assume a good grounding in the topics covered in this book by Larsen and make excellent follow-on reading.

Master your calculus
I took up this book for my course in economics and i found the book clear and examples quite relevant. However, our calculus background was rather weak and we were left to study integrals by oursleves. Because of this, most of us floundered in the text and could not fully appreciate some of the more essential steps of the proofs. The solutions to many examples requires a solid background in calculus to fully appreciate and, at times, even understand since certain steps are ommited. So much so that our eco teacher, with a degree in engineering mind you, admitted the book was a bit too terse and spent most of the time explaining the calculus that we learnt very little of actual statistics.
In short, master your calculus or this book will only give you a rough feel for elementary statistics but will definitely not arm you to take up higher stat courses.

Excellent introduction to statistics...
This book manages to stay focused on the main ideas all the way through. It uses no more math than what is necessary to derive the proofs of most theorems (although some are omitted). The main ideas of each chapter is introduced before the details are worked out, and summarized at the end of each chapter. The examples and case-studies are usually interesting (sometimes thought-provoking), instead of solely being based on urns and coloured balls. And the exercises range from trivial to interesting...

In short, this is about as good as a textbook gets... ... Read more

Isbn: 0139223037
Sales Rank: 185985
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Introduction to Mathematical Statistics (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)
by Paul G.Hoel
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Statistical theory and application
I used the fourth edition in a college course and found it to be well written and very understandable (the fourth edition was pre-calculator and had math tables in the back).The book assumed only an elementary calculus background and so was not rigorous in proving every theorem introduced, but was pretty good in showing the derivation of commonly used results and formulas.

I particularly liked the problem sets which were a mix of theoretical and applied exercises (with answers to the odd numbers), and NOT a long list of statements to be proven.

The emphasis was on theory, but statistical theory developed from attempts to solve real life problems and this book recognized that and considered applications of that theory throughout.

Encyclopeadia Britannica
I knew this book's name from Bibiography for an Encyclopeadia Britannica (1993 edition) article Statistics. I have not read the book yet. I gave it a neutral rating (3 stars) since I assume the book at least is not a poor one. (Very likely it deserv a 4 or 5 star rating after I read it). ... Read more

Isbn: 0471890456
Sales Rank: 787437
Subjects:  1. Mathematical Statistics    2. Mathematics    3. Probability & Statistics - General    4. Science/Mathematics    5. Mathematics / Statistics    6. Probability & statistics