To see what your friends thought of this book. Inside Interesting Integrals A Collection of Sneaky Tricks, Sly Substitutions, and Numerous Other Stupendously Clever, Awesomely Wicked, and Devilishly Seductive Maneuvers for Computing Nearly 200 Perplexing Definite Integrals From Physics, Engineering, and Mathematics (Plus 60 Challenge Problems with Complete, Detailed Solutions) However, afterwards the boo. in color. One pair of integrals they might find interesting is $$\int_0^{\pi/2} \cos^2 x \, dx \textrm{ and } \int_0^{\pi/2} \sin^2 x \, dx.$$ These integrals can be evaluated two different ways. The introduction on Feynman’s trick, in particular, really drives home how well the author can deliver on making a trick both easy and usable.  £58.95, £21.15 Who else has sold more than 200 million... What's the point of calculating definite integrals since you can't possibly do them all?. I could see this book as a much better reference than a book for learning usable tools. Inside Interesting Integrals: A Collection of Sneaky Tricks, Sly Substitutions, and Numerous Other Stupendously Clever, Awesomely Wicked, and Devilishly Seductive Maneuvers for Computing Nearly 200 Perplexing Definite Integrals From Physics, Engineering, and Mathematics (Plus 60 Challenge Problems with Complete, Detailed Solutions) - Ebook written by Paul J. Nahin. The Book Depository Ltd.UK. Using (-1) to Evaluate Integrals.- 7.1 Euler's Formula.- 7.2 The Fresnel Integrals.- 7.3 (3) and More Log-Sine Integrals .- 7.4 (2), At Last!.- 7.5 The Probability Integral Again.- 7.6 Beyond Dirichlet's Integral.- 7.7 Dirichlet Meets the Gamma Function.- 7.8 Fourier Transforms and Energy Integrals.- 7.9 'Weird' Integrals from Radio Engineering.- 7.10 Causality and Hilbert Transform Integrals.- 7.11 Challenge Problems.- 8. |, 155 There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Again, this is a ridiculous book of some really odd integrals, integrals that look like they were written specifically to stump very stubborn mathematicians. by Springer. After chapter 5, I honestly stopped working through the problems since half of the time I could not even get to see the solution to know if I was on the right track or if I was headed in a way contrary to my hope of solution. We use cookies and similar tools, including those used by approved third parties (collectively, "cookies") for the purposes described below.You can learn more about how we (plus approved third parties) use cookies and how to change your settings by visiting the Cookies notice. The book is published in the series Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics and it will probably be physicists and students of physics who will be the majority of its readers. currency or language preferences), and display features, products and services (e.g. Not an easy read but a very good book. Mariah Carey Is Telling Her Own Story (and Recommending Books). , including ads relevant to your interests on Book Depository and to work with approved third parties in the process of delivering ad content, including ads relevant to your interests, to measure the effectiveness of their ads, and to perform services on behalf of Book Depository. x 27.94mm https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1277-3, Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015. What's the point of calculating definite integrals since you can't possibly do them all?. Overall, Interesting Integrals is a book I want to recommend, yet it falls short of being that useful in terms of teaching the few tricks it possesses. Overall, Interesting Integrals is a book I want to recommend, yet it falls short of being that useful in terms of teaching the few tricks it possesses. Intuitively, the integrals should be the same, because they're the same function only flipped around.  £69.99, £61.75 Or maybe to compensate for the fact that university-level math courses are always so formulaic and boring - you simply memorize a few key approaches to, say, integration, instead of getting engaged in really creative approaches.  £93.50, £46.43 We’d love your help. Without a proper subdivision between tricks and application, it became hard to see what the point of each part was, making intuition increase rather limited unfortunately. {"bd_js_shop":"Shop","bd_js_too_long_for_shipping_label":"Sorry, that's too long for our shipping labels","bd_js_too_long":"Sorry, that's too long","bd_js_could_not_find_address_try_again":"Sorry, we couldn't find the address. However, such practices pale in comparison to the text’s problem at providing clear solutions in the dedicated solution section of the book. (both Princeton).  £62.99, £26.64 Be the first to ask a question about Inside Interesting Integrals. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.  £22.99, £24.54  £53.99, £56.69 Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read.  £44.99, £32.49 It’s why I ended up skipping the penultimate and ultimate chapters altogether, as I feared that his method of explanation would simply cloud my intuition when I try to get a better understanding of contour integration.  £31.99, £34.30 There were a few times where the book managed to simply, through some weird notation, become hard to decode without the assistance of Wolfram Alpha to pick up the slack.  £54.99, £30.59 What makes doing the specific integrals in this book of value aren't the specific answers we'll obtain, but rather the methods we'll use in obtaining those answers; methods you can use for evaluating the integrals you will encounter in the future. Buy Inside Interesting Integrals (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics) 2015 by Nahin, Paul J. 87.106.48.241.  £18.99, £22.67  £31.99, £11.68 "The main purpose of the author is not to calculate specific integrals and obtain specific answers, but to present several tricks and methods which are used to obtain those answers. 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If you like books and love to build cool products, we may be looking for you.  £22.99, £47.41 Valean's correspondence with Nahin is partly responsible for Impossible, and Nahin's Foreword compares Valean to Boros, the "person who could do any integral." Introduction.- 1.1 The Riemann Integral.- 1.2 An Example of Riemann Integration.- 1.3 The Lebesgue Integral.- 1.4 'Interesting' and 'Inside'.- 1.5 An Example of a Trick.- 1.6 Singularities.- 1.7 Dalzell's Integral.- 1.8 Where Integrals Come From.- 1.9 Last Words.- 1.10 Challenge Problems.- 2. In chapters 1-4 of the book, the book performs pretty well, delivering, albeit easy, problems which really drive home the essence of the tricks and demonstrate their uses well. Gamma and Beta Function Integrals.- 4.1 Euler's Gamma Function.- 4.2 Wallis' Integral and the Beta Function.- 4.3 Double Integration Reversal.- 4.4 The Gamma Function Meets Physics.- 4.5 Challenge Problems.- 5.  £29.99, £65.32 Feynman's Favorite Trick.- 3.1 Leibniz's Formula.- 3.2 Dirichlet's Amazing Integral.- 3.3 Frullani's Integral.- 3.4 The Flip-Side of Feynman's Trick.- 3.5 Combining Two Tricks.- 3.6 Uhler's Integral and Symbolic Integration.- 3.7 The Probability Integral Revisited.- 3.8 Dini's Integral.- 3.9 Feynman's Favorite Trick Solves a Physics Equation .- 3.10 Challenge Problems.- 4. The introduction on Feynman’s trick, in particular, really drives home how well the author can deliver on making a trick both easy and usable. Find books Lastly, the book’s latter half tries to squeeze a lot of different tricks in the latter half all at once. Download books for free. Altogether, this book seems unfinished and the problems are really weirdly designed.  £53.99, £99.31 Contour Integration.- 8.1 Prelude.- 8.2 Line Integrals.- 8.3 Functions of a Complex Variable.- 8.4 The Cauchy-Riemann Equations and Analytic Functions.- 8.5 Green's Integral Theorem.- 8.6 Cauchy's First Integral Theorem.- 8.7 Cauchy's Second Integral Theorem.- 8.8 Singularities and the Residue Theorem.- 8.9 Integrals with Multi-valued Integrands.- 8.10 Challenge Problems.- 9.  £40.99, £44.99  £35.99, £42.30 Preface.- 1.  £64.99, Learn about new offers and get more deals by joining our newsletter.  £25.49, £34.09 Seven Not-So-Easy Integrals.- 6.1 Bernoulli's Integral .- 6.2 Ahmed's Integral.- 6.3 Coxeter's Integral.- 6.4 The Hardy-Schuster Optical Integral.- 6.5 The Watson/van Peype Triple Integrals.- 6.6 Elliptic Integrals in a Physical Problem.- 6.7 Challenge Problems.- 7. book series The choices you make here will apply to your interaction with this service on this device. What’s the point of calculating definite integrals since you can’t possibly do them all? Inside Interesting Integrals | Paul J. Nahin | download | B–OK. Part of Springer Nature. You can learn more about our use of cookies here.  £24.99, £46.02 Epilogue.- 9.1 Riemann, Prime Numbers, and the Zeta Function.- 9.2 Deriving the Functional Equation for (s).- 9.3 Challenge Questions.- Solutions to the Challenge Problems. © 2020   £64.50, £55.94  £49.99, £16.19 Overall, Interesting Integrals is a book I want to recommend, yet it falls short of being that useful in terms of teaching the few tricks it possesses. This service is more advanced with JavaScript available, Part of the ... mathematicians also may find many interesting things there." Using Power Series to Evaluate Integrals.- 5.1 Catalan's Constant.- 5.2 Power Series for the Log Function.- 5.3 Zeta Function Integrals.- 5.4 Euler's Constant and Related Integrals.- 5.5 Challenge Problems.- 6. Click to read more about Inside Interesting Integrals by Paul J. Nahin. Paul J. Nahin (born November 26, 1940 in Orange County, California) is an American engineer and author who has written 20 books on topics in physics and mathematics, including biographies of Oliver Heaviside, George Boole, and Claude Shannon, books on mathematical concepts such as Euler's formula and the imaginary unit, and a number of books on the physics and philosophical puzzles of time travel. £28.63 This book is written in a light-hearted manner for students who have completed the first year of college or high school AP calculus, and have just a bit of exposure to the concept of a differential equation.  £104.00, £20.99 Paul Nahin was born in California, and did all of his schooling there (Brea-Olinda High 1958, Stanford BS 1962, Caltech MS 1963 and - as a Howard Hughes Staff Doctoral Fellow - UC/Irvine PhD 1972, with all degrees in electrical engineering). Please try again","bd_saving_percent_off":"{0}%