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Essential Mathematics for Games and Interactive Applications: A Programmer's Guide, Second Edition Hardcover – 27 Jun. 2008

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Essential Mathematics for Games and Interactive Applications, 2nd edition presents the core mathematics necessary for sophisticated 3D graphics and interactive physical simulations. The book begins with linear algebra and matrix multiplication and expands on this foundation to cover such topics as color and lighting, interpolation, animation and basic game physics. Essential Mathematics focuses on the issues of 3D game development important to programmers and includes optimization guidance throughout.

The new edition Windows code will now use Visual Studio.NET. There will also be DirectX support provided, along with OpenGL - due to its cross-platform nature. Programmers will find more concrete examples included in this edition, as well as additional information on tuning, optimization and robustness.

The book has a companion CD-ROM with exercises and a test bank for the academic secondary market, and for main market: code examples built around a shared code base, including a math library covering all the topics presented in the book, a core vector/matrix math engine, and libraries to support basic 3D rendering and interaction.

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0123742978
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978-0123742971
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2nd
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CRC Press
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27 Jun. 2008
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English
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21.89 x 4.24 x 23.83 cm
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704 pages
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"It's the book with all the math you need for games." -Neil Kirby, Researcher, Alcatel-Lucent

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James M. Van Verth is a founding member of Red Storm Entertainment, a division of Ubisoft, where he has been a lead engineer for nine years. For the past eight years he has also been a regular speaker at the Game Developers Conferences, teaching the all-day tutorial "Math for Game Programmers, on which this book is based. He has a B.A. in mathematics and computer science from Dartmouth College and M.S. degrees in computer science from the State University of New York at Buffalo and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Lars M. Bishop is an engineer in the Handheld Developer Technologies group at NVIDIA. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Lars was the Chief Technology Officer at Numerical Design Limited, leading the development of the Gamebryo3D cross-platform game engine. He received a BS in Math/Computer Science from Brown University and an MS in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His outside interests include photography, drumming, and playing bass guitar.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CRC Press; 2nd edition (27 Jun. 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 704 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0123742978
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0123742971
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.89 x 4.24 x 23.83 cm

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Martin Buscombe

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Very good and informative book, good delivery

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Joe Alam

One of the Best Maths Books for Programmers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 February 2012

This book contains all of the Mathematical techniques needed for graphics and game programming.

I haven't yet come across any maths needed in game programming that can't be found in this book.
Everything is explained thoroughly will diagrams and formulae provided.

The book start from a fairly simple level, and it would be possible to read it with very little background in maths.

Very simple code samples are given, and the CD that accompanies this book has various examples and exercises to help learn how to put the techniques to practical application.

I recommend this book for anybody serious about learning game programming.

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C. Bamber

A spectacular reference for the CG world.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 February 2009

This is an utterly brilliant book, I don't work in games but in non-realtime CG, and the focus upon the mathematics and techniques rather than the code samples is refreshing. The book covers pretty much all the vital bases, but if it isn't enough, a HUGE reference and further reading list is provided at the end.

I'm reading this book front to back, but it shines as a reference manual.

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