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Title: Complex Variables and the Laplace Transform for Engineers Author(s): Wilbur R. LePage Pages: 483 Publisher: Dover Publications; New Ed edition Publication date: 1980 Language: English Format: PDF ISBN-10: 0486639266 ISBN-13: Description: Acclaimed text on essential engineering mathematics covers theory of complex variables, Cauchy-Riemann equations, conformal mapping, and multivalued functions, plus Fourier and Laplace transform theory, with applications to engineering, including integrals, linear integrodifferential equations, Z-transform, more. Ideal for home study as well as graduate engineering courses, this volume includes many problems.
Review
Summary: Good material for a self-study, ok as a reference
Rating: 4
This book makes an excellent guide for self-study on the subject. It is very detailed, deliberate and self-contained.
Even though Laplace transform is in the title, he doesn't get to that until chapter 10, since there is a great deal of background material he covers to get there. The book may be better titled "Everything you need to know to use Laplace transforms", since it is more background than actual material about Laplace transforms.
He doesn't provide much in the way of look-up tables of Laplace transforms, which I thought was kind of strange. He states that you can compute them yourself once you have learned all the material in the book... true, but I would still have liked tables.
If you are a grad student doing anything with Laplace transforms, and you are not in mathematics, this is a good, cheap book to get. It explains many of the essential proofs and theorems in ways non-mathematicians can understand (or at least it did for me). He has lots of figures, which I like (why do math books never have figures?)
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