Methods of applied mathematics with a software overview
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Methods of applied mathematics with a software overview
zbMATH Open document ID: 1387.00023
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-43370-7
author: Jon H. Davis
published in: Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis
publication date: 2016-08-22T00:00:00Z
review text: The book under review is a lucidly written introduction to advanced methods in applied mathematics with a clear focus on harmonic analysis. The reader should already be familiar with elementary notions from linear algebra, calculus and ordinary diffential equations. A very appealing feature is its closeness to implementation issues. The author thereby focuses on free tools, in particular Octave, Python and Maxima, in contrast to a former edition, where MATLAB has been used. The outline of the presentation follows a general scheme: Physically motivated boundary-/inital value problems lead via diagonalization of the associated differential operators to series expansions of the solutions. The author nicely describes how this approach, applied to boundary value problems (bv-problems) of the heat equation, leads to the advent of Fourier series. Here he is following the historical route of \textit{J. Fourier} [The analytical theory of heat. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. (1955; Zbl 0066.07801)]. Subtle convergence issues are discussed and illustrated with numerical examples and it is demonstrated that Fourier series also apply to bv-problems associated with hyperbolic (wave equation) and elliptic (Laplace equation) PDE's. The book continues with the discussion of Sturm-Liouville problems and eventually leads to ``continuous versions'' of the series approaches. Thus Laplace- and Fourier transforms are introduced and discussed in large detail. Since the respective reconstruction formulae require integration techniques on the complex plane, a section on complex analysis is also included. The material covered there turns out to be useful also in a subsequent section on discrete transforms such as the Z-Transform, where inversion formulae also rely on Cauchy's integral formula. In a final section more generalizations are adressed. These generalizations concern orthogonal function systems like the Walsh system, which has an inherent multiscale structure, as well as bv-probl…
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 00A69
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 00A05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 42-01
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 65-01
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 30-01
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 34-01
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 34Bxx
zbMATH DE Number: 6618779
zbMATH Keywords: applied mathematics
zbMATH Keywords: engineering mathematics
zbMATH Keywords: harmonic analysis
describes a project that uses: Matlab
describes a project that uses: DOLFIN
describes a project that uses: Octave
describes a project that uses: wxMaxima
describes a project that uses: SciPy
describes a project that uses: FEniCS
describes a project that uses: Blender
describes a project that uses: Maxima
describes a project that uses: NumPy
describes a project that uses: Matplotlib
describes a project that uses: FreeCAD
describes a project that uses: Python
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full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43370-7
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