Applied Mathematica: Getting Started, Getting it Done

By William T. Shaw and Jason Tigg

Book Overview

better ways to solve problems. This book shows how Mathematica., the powerful mathematical software system, can be used to solve problems in the applied sciences. Written by two authors who have been teaching Mathematica courses to scientists and engineers for years, this book is a must for anyone who needs to use Mathematica to solve complex problems in the applied sciences. The book tackles complex, practical problems, and shows how to solve them from start to finish. After presenting a 3quick start2 chapter designed to get up and running with Mathematica, the authors show how Mathematica can be used as a data analysis and visualization system. Topics in this section include importing information to Mathematica, organizing information, visualizing data in both 2-D and 3-D, processing information, and exporting results from Mathematica. Next, the authors guide you through programming in Mathematica. Included here are topics such as programming styles, important built-in structures, function definitions, procedural methods, rule-based schemes and iteration, contexts and packages, and increasing efficiency. Also included is a separate section detailing several case studies that expl This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 020154217X
• ISBN13: 9780201542172
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

outdated but still useful as introduction

I found it quite useful to gather the necessay skills to start Mathematica, though it is rapidly becoming outdated and certainly lacks any in depth commands.

Best long term reference on Mathematica

I've been using this book since 1995. I use version 4.2 of Mathematica now and the fact that Shaw and Tigg wrote it for 2.2 doesn't matter. It teaches ways of thinking about problems in Mathematica that most other books don't even try. I use Mathematica almost daily in my professional life. If I run into a problem with applying Mathematica I invariably end up using Shaw and Tigg(I have 6 or 7 other references) rather than...

mathematica can do data analysis

This book is rather strong on data analysis. (linear regression, scattergram, etc.) It also explains various methods (both 2D and 3D) to graphically present such analyses. (e.g. fourier filtering, graphs with lots of interesting diagrams, etc.) I am sure social science people will enjoy this book. Plenty of examples to let you get on track quickly. However, rather weak on explaining theoretical bits (which makes it leave out...