The third edition of this successful introductory mathematics title, revised to reflect the declining mathematical ability amongst today's students.I t provides a clear and non-intimidating foundation in mathematics suitable for engineering, science, mathematics, business studies and economics students taking degree and diploma courses. The book has been written so that it can be used either as a self-teaching text or as a recommended book.

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BOOTH, DEXTER J.

Mathematics

Longman Sc & Tech

Advanced Level. Focus on Pronunciation, a comprehensive pronunciation course, is designed to help students enjoy speaking English well. Written for advanced ESL students, Focus on Pronunciation addresses the crux of most pronunciation problems by emphasizing elements of English phonology that are difficult or unusual in terms of the world's languages.

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Social Sciences

These two collections of unabridged and unadapted humorous American short stories will motivate and encourage students to read, while exposing them to American literature, life, and culture. Pre- and postreading discussion and writing activities, and generous glossing, make these stories accessible to students. Follow-up activities provide extensive practice with vocabulary, idioms, and grammar.

Laugh and Learn: Humorous American Short Stories

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Felder, Mira B.

Bromberg, Anna Bryks

English as a Second Language

Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Their Applications: College De France Seminar (Research Notes in Mathematics Series)

Brezis, H.

Elliptic Problems in Nonsmooth Domains (CHAPMAN AND HALL /CRC MONOGRAPHS AND SURVEYS IN PURE AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS)

Grisvard, P.

This is the fifth edition of a well-established textbook. It is intended to provide a thorough coverage of the fundamental principles and techniques of classical mechanics, an old subject that is at the base of all of physics, but in which there has also in recent years been rapid development. The book is aimed at undergraduate students of physics and applied mathematics. It emphasizes the basic principles, and aims to progress rapidly to the point of being able to handle physically and mathematically interesting problems, without getting bogged down in excessive formalism. Lagrangian methods are introduced at a relatively early stage, to get students to appreciate their use in simple contexts. Later chapters use Lagrangian and Hamiltonian methods extensively, but in a way that aims to be accessible to undergraduates, while including modern developments at the appropriate level of detail. The subject has been developed considerably recently while retaining a truly central role for all students of physics and applied mathematics.This edition retains all the main features of the fourth edition, including the two chapters on geometry of dynamical systems and on order and chaos, and the new appendices on conics and on dynamical systems near a critical point. The material has been somewhat expanded, in particular to contrast continuous and discrete behaviours. A further appendix has been added on routes to chaos (period-doubling) and related discrete maps. The new edition has also been revised to give more emphasis to specific examples worked out in detail.Classical Mechanics is written for undergraduate students of physics or applied mathematics. It assumes some basic prior knowledge of the fundamental concepts and reasonable familiarity with elementary differential and integral calculus.

Classical Mechanics

Kibble, T. W. B.

Japan

Kornhauser, David

During the two decades that preceded the publication of the first edition of this book, the Gelfand-Kirillov dimension had emerged as a very useful and powerful tool for investigating non-commutative algebras. At that time, the basic ideas and results were scattered throughout various journal articles. The first edition of this book provided a much-needed reliable and coherent single source of information. Since that time, the book has become the standard reference source for researchers. For this edition, the authors incorporated the original text with only minor modifications. Errors have been corrected, items have been rephrased, and more mathematical expressions have been displayed for the purpose of clarity. The newly added Chapter 12 provides broad overviews of the new developments that have surfaced in the last few years, with references to the literature for details. The bibliography has been updated and accordingly, almost double the size of the original one. The faithful revision and contemporary design of this work offers time-honored expertise with modern functionality: A keenly appealing combination. So, whether for the classroom, the well-tended mathematical books collection, or the research desk, this book holds unprecedented relevance.

Growth of Algebras and Gelfand-Kirillov Dimension (Research Notes in Mathematics Series)

Krause, Gunter R.

Lenagan, Thomas H.

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Louw, Gideon N.

Seely, M. K.

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