Reviews for Variational Methods for Discontinuous Structures: International Workshop at Villa Erba (Cernobbio), Italy, July 2001

The average rating for Variational Methods for Discontinuous Structures: International Workshop at Villa Erba (Cernobbio), Italy, July 2001 based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-02-05 00:00:00 Rene Maradiaga I enjoyed this. It is a very concise and clear treatment, with enough detail to follow the main ideas without getting lost. There were many places where I didn't know enough to fill in all the steps myself but it didn't detract from the development. The references are good. My only problem is that, like many math books, it doesn't answer the "who cares?" question. One needs to already be an expert to be able to justify trying to read the book. The applications sections are thin and don't give a sense for what advantages over other techniques MC brings to the table. (I didn't understand the financial analysis section at all, but that's my problem.) Given the recent interest in Wiener chaos in numerical analysis, I think there's a lot of opportunity for a Volume 2.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-12-27 00:00:00 Edwin Heywood Great for the student interested in learning more about calculus. Good first math book for college.