Product Description: The first truly up-to-date treatment of the calculus of variations, this text is also the first to offer a simple introduction to such key concepts as optimal control and linear-quadratic control design. Suitable for junior/senior–level students of math, science, and engineering, this volume also serves as a useful reference for engineers, chemists, and forest/environmental managers...read more

Product Description: This is the first modern calculus book to be organized axiomatically and to survey the subject's applicability to science and engineering. A challenging exposition of calculus in the European style, it is an excellent text for a first-year university honors course or for a third-year analysis course...read more

Product Description: This book provides a concise, single-source survey of all the mathematics most useful in industry today-- particularly modeling and the unit $. Each chapter begins with a brief review of some relevant mathematics; then introduces the industrial extension of this same material via typical real-world applications...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For a first course in the topic using the modern, norm-based Sobolev techniques not currently available in published format. Major concepts are presented with minimal possible detail and details are pushed into the exercises, omitted, or postponed until later sections...read more