"The reader shall also benefit from numerous exercises which conclude each chapter along with helpful bibliographic comments and extensive lists of recommended literature ... Most chapters can be studied independently of each other. This allows one to select material appropriate for the one semester course whereas all the topics can be presented in one year. The text contains enough material to support courses on advanced engineering mathematics, mathematical methods or mathematical physics and thus is warmly recommended as supplementary reading. The book shall also prove very helpful to specialists who look for a well-written introduction to basic mathematical techniques used for solving applied problems."Zentralblatt MATH

• Trigonometric Relations and Fourier Analysis; Gamma, Beta, Zeta and Other Special Functions; Qualitative Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations; Difference Equations; Sturm-Liouville Problems; Special Functions and Their Properties; Perturbation Methods for Oscillatory Systems; Approximations of Integrals and Sums; Some Important Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations