Complex variables and applications
by James Ward Brown, Ruel Vance Churchill · first published 1995
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…criticisms, but I was recollecting on reading Boyce & DiPrima where the Laplace was relegated to IVP. I was left with feeling that I had only learned yet another trick until I read Churchill & Brown's Complex Variables and Applications.
on “A First Course in Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers” ↗I had a different problem, I found that word density increases 10 fold, but symbol density and proofs go down as you go through it. My favorite example to use is this: Complex Variables and Applications by Brown and Churchill. This book has been in print for 70 years or something, and it's somewhere around 400 pages in the current edition I believe. My professor I did research for had a early 80s edition,…
on “Kill Math” ↗>What would you have appreciated having been given at that age? I remember getting God Created The Integers when I was a teenager and... not finishing it. I also got a copy of Brown & Churchill's Complex Variables and Applications and spent hundreds of hours on it. As a teenager, I preferred textbooks with problem sets to popularizations. (I still do.) Of course, this was [complex] analysis, so it doesn't qualify. One book which…
on “Ask HN: Recommend a maths book for a teenager?” ↗…Reif, "Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics", Liboff, "Introductory Quantum Mechanics", Sakurai, "Modern Quantum Mechanics", Ashcroft and Mermin, "Solid State Physics", Brown and Churchill, "Complex Variables and Applications", and "Fourier Series and Boundary Value Problems".
on “Did you learn STEM with paper books or digital ones?” ↗…English wasn't their primary language. There's a few books that have been around forever, and they have a completely different level of readability between the editions. The Churchill/Brown book of Complex Variables and Applications has added something like 100+ pages of wordiness to the book since the 60's edition.
on “Proofs without words” ↗