Reviews for Mathematical Problems in Plasticity (Modern Applied Mathematics Series)

The average rating for Mathematical Problems in Plasticity (Modern Applied Mathematics Series) based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-02-06 00:00:00 Alan Bowman good

Review # 2 was written on 2018-02-08 00:00:00 Barnypok Parbbkxwmuzlsxgpmta The book appears to be extremely readable, and judging by the speed with which I'm getting through it, ought to be eminently suitable as a text book. Moreover, the book appears to explain from scratch all of the discrete mathematics that is used, and provides a large number of worked exercises. Of course, this potentially reduces its suitability for advanced computer science undergraduates, who would hopefully already be familiar with the formal underpinnings. There are a couple of negative points, however. Most significant is the way the publisher (presumably) has decided to include extremely wide margins on the pages - in many places, less than half the available white space is actually used for print. This is a gross waste of paper, and presumably ramps up the book's price completely unnecessarily. There is also at least one technical error in the footnotes. We are told on page 4 that "it is always possible to represent any element of a discrete set with a finite string (in some alphabet)", where an "alphabet" has previously been defined to mean "any finite set of symbols". This is obviously only true for countable discrete sets; uncountable discrete sets cannot be represented in this way, because there are only countably many finite strings over a finite alphabet. Nonetheless, this book gives a good account of the field, with due emphasis on key mathematical concepts underpinning it.