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Mathematica Navigator: Graphics and Methods of Applied Mathematics (Paperback)

by Heikki Ruskeepaa (Author) "This chapter is intended to give you an impression of Mathematica and to teach you some of the basic techniques and commands of Mathematica ..." (more)

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Paperback: 848 pages
Publisher: Academic Press Inc; Bk&CD-Rom edition (22 Oct 1998)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0126036403
ISBN-13: 978-0126036404
Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 18.7 x 4 cm

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A general introduction to the popular mathematics software product, emphasizing graphics, methods of applied mathematics, and programming. Assumes no previous experience with the software, but at least some background in differential and integral calculus, equations, optimization, interpolation, approximation, differential and partly differential equations, probability, statistics, and the other mathematical functions described. The CD-ROM allows the entire text to be entered into the help system of; it can be read with Windows, Macintosh, or Unix. Book News, Inc.., Portland, OR

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This work gives a general introduction to the use of Mathematica, with emphasis on graphics, methods of applied mathematics, and programming. The book serves both as a tutorial and as a handbook. No previous experienced with Mathematica is assumed, but the book also contains advanced material. Therefore, the pack may be considered useful for both beginners and experienced users. The CD-ROM contains the entire book, including all animations and data sets presented in the book.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The best book on Mathematica, but showing its age a bit now. , 14 Dec 2007

By	D. R. Kirkby (the UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Mathematica Navigator: Mathematics, Statistics, and Graphics, Second Edition (Paperback)

Mathematica is an excellent program, with good built-in and online documentation - although many feel the Documentation Centre in version 6 is not as good as the Help Browser in version 5.2. But sooner or later you will find a problem for which the official Mathematica documentation does not help. The program can then be very frustrating, as the syntax is complicated and error messages can be very cryptic. Help online is painfully slow, as the official resource, the news group comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica (Mathgroup), is moderated, so help requests have to be approved before they will appear. Hence Mathematica users will need one or more good books - more so than with other similar programs where there are popular online community resources.

In addition to the Mathematica Navigator by Ruskeepaa, I own several other books on Mathematica, including:
* The Mathematica GuideBook for Symbolics by Michael Trott
* The Mathematica GuideBook: Programming by Michael Trott
* Stephen Wolfram's official Mathematica book (5th edition).
* The inexpensive Schaum's Outline of Mathematica by Eugene Don.
* An Introduction to Programming with Mathematica, 3rd edition by Paul Wellin
* The 1st and 3rd editions of Programming in Mathematica by Roman Maeder.
plus a few more old books I've either had a very long time or bought very cheaply on Amazon.

Given the choice of only one book, I would choose Mathematica Navigator by Ruskeepaa. It comes with a CD-ROM which has the whole contents of the book, which may be integrated into Mathematica's help system. It's not unique in that respect, as so do Micheal Trott's Mathematica Guidebooks, but they have far too much irrelevant material in them. Ruskeepaa's book sticks to important facts about Mathematica. The book covers a wide range of topics. Sometimes I wish in more depth, but the book offers a good compromise between width and depth. In particular, the information on writing Mathematica programs is far too short, so its unlikely to satisfy someone wanting to write a major Mathematica package. For writing packages, Maeders book based on Mathematica 3 is arguably still the best, although it is very old.

The only significant fault I can find of this books is its age. Mathematica 6 is a really major upgrade from 5 with many functions now built into the kernel which previously needed to be loaded from packages. Many functions or options have been deprecated. As such, some of the information is no longer accurate. But given at the time of writing (December 2007) there is no book on Mathematica 6 published, I think Ruskeepaa's book, which is based on version 5, is the best Mathematica users can get. However, if by the time you read this, someone has published a book on Mathematica 6, then it might be worth buying that instead.

I would have given this 5 stars, but it is getting a bit dated now.

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