Mathematical and Physical Methods

Author: Liu Lianshou
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This book has been in print for over 10 years. Over the past decade of teaching practice, the material selection, content arrangement, and presentation of this book have been thoroughly tested and widely acclaimed. The second edition is the result of revisions based on new teaching experiences and the requirements of the new era. While correcting some errors in the first edition, this book retains some of its original features: it emphasizes the properties of complex analytic functions by comparing them with the properties of real-variable functions, and systematically presents mathematical physics equations through methods of solving equations. At the same time, the second edition strengthens the discussion on the asymptotic expressions of saddle points and special functions, as well as some properties of special functions. It also supplements the content of hyperbolic Bessel functions, Airy equations, and Laplace transforms in the complex plane, which have important applications in physics. This book can be used as a textbook for the mathematical methods course in physics majors at universities and colleges, and can also be referenced by other disciplines.