Advanced undergraduates and graduate students in the natural sciences receive a solid foundation in several fields of mathematics with this text. Topics include vector spaces and matrices; orthogonal functions; polynomial equations; asymptotic expansions; ordinary differential equations; conformal mapping; and extremum problems. Includes exercises and solutions. 1962 edition. This book is based on a two-semester course in "The Mathematical Methods of Physics" which I have given in the mathematics department of the University of Illinois in recent years. The audience has consisted primarily of physicists, engineers, and other natural scientists in their first or second year of graduate study. Knowledge of the theory of functions of real and complex variables is assumed.
