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This text book on basic mathematics is mainly addressed to students in physics. The reader is assumed to know already the basic facts of calculus and determinants, which are only reviewed in the appendices. The book has 14 chapters: Vector and tensor analysis, ordinary differential equations, matrix algebra, Fourier series and integrals, linear vector spaces, functions of a complex variable, special functions of mathematical physics, calculus of variations, Laplace transform, partial differential equations, linear integral equations, group theory, numerical methods, probability theory. In particular the last chapters are only introductory ones. The text contains numerous examples illustrating the mathematical techniques and showing their relevance to physics. Lots of problems are given at the end of each chapter, but without solutions. Reviewer's remark: On pp. 72-79 the symbol \(D\) should be used in a unique way. The symbol \(\approx\) for the asymptotic approximation on pp. 99 and 486 should be defined, the more as it is used on pp. 336, 467 and 469 with different meanings. On p. 268 the case \(r=0\) can be permitted in (6.30). On p. 269 the consideration concerning the convergence of (6.31) failed. On p. 514 the ratio test is wrong as the example \(u_n={1\over n}\) shows. On p. 528 Leibniz is to write without ``t''. Samples for misprints are contained in pp. \(149_1\), \(179^9\), \(185_8\), \(198_2\), \(270^{2,13}\), \(271_{5,18}\), \(273_7\), \(277^{13}\), \(487^4\), \(514^{11}\), \(515^{12}\), \(516_{12}\), \(525_4\), \(527^{1,4,15}\) and \(537^3\), they should be corrected in a new edition.