This is one of the worst books I have ever used. The examples given in the book are not explained so unless you are the teacher or have prior knowledge to the subject matter you are just lost. I find myself using google for help more than this book.

I have not purchased many study guides/solutions manuals in the past, but this one has to rank among the worst. First off, there is no study guide in this thing. It has the chapters broken down by sections, but there is not really any information to augment what is in the textbook. It simply goes right into solutions for the problems at the end of each section. Although I would prefer to have a study guide supplement to the text (since that is what I payed for and thought I was getting), I have to say that I would be okay with just the solutions if they were all actually there. But no, that is not the case. Only solutions to selected problems are given, and from what I have seen there is only one solution provided for a given type of problem. This is aggravating, because some problems may be of a similar type but different difficulty level. Making matters worse, only solutions to odd numbered problems are provided. I understand that the authors probably did this to prevent students from buying the solutions to homework problems, since many professors like to assign even problems because there is no answer provided in the textbook. However, since you can usually figure out how to solve a problem if you know what answer you are working towards (hence the reason for professors assigning even numbered problems), having solutions to selected odd numberd problems is just not that helpful. So, I have decided that this thing is useless and a complete waste of money. Don't buy it!

I bought 6th edition of this book more than 10 years ago. But the cover of 6th edition has no photograph, it has an pink color. I think this book has cover useful basic of engineering mathematic. But the explanation is very short and difficult to understand. Lucky enough I use this textbook when I was 2nd undergraduate engineering student in which cover topic about Fourier Analysis, Laplace Transform and Numerical Analysis. Until today, I want to analyze intermodulation distortion of fully differential amplifier but I found that the chapters on Fourier Transform and Laplace transform don't have enough basic to take inverse Transform of exact transfer function. Because it has very high order polynomial. It is very useful for me to see examples of realistic harmonic distortion analysis
of fully differential amplifier in the 10th edition. But I think this book is good enough to use as a reference because there are not many books which covers all of the important topics of mathematic in electrical engineering

GOOD:
This book is useful if you need a fairly comprehensive reference book covering many mathematical topics in engineering.

BAD:
Most topics are treated too superficially to be useful as a primary learning text.

STRANGE TARGET GROUP:
If you could only have one math book after you've gone through all your undergraduate engineering courses, this might be a good pick. But that's a silly scenario. Instead, you'll probably be better off with four or five separate books that are focused on their subject.

I don't regret purchasing this text, but I got it very cheap overseas... It's really not worth the current $132 price, in my opinion.

Only a few problems per chapter are explained/solved. Not worth the money. Really a paltry manual

The book is good. It gives some idea about the questions but the fact is that mainly the desired questions are not solved in these type of Manuals. Still it can help

To be honest, I wish I had looked through this book before purchasing it - because I wouldn't have if I knew how few solutions it contained. Most solutions manuals I've owned have all of the even numbered problems, but this one only contains a few even numbered from each section. While the ones included are useful, they are still crammed together in a small space and there aren't enough of them. The explanations of the solutions are very concise, as if they were attempting to work out the problem in as small a space as possible; sometimes sacrificing understanding. Only buy this if you are in desperate need of any help in your class that you can get - it won't help much, but it's still a resource.

It's exactly what most 4 and 5 star reviews say it is. The only real issue I have that no other review (not even a 1, 2, or 3 star review) mentions is this. The book doesn't provide notes for conceptual pitfalls that can and will arise when reading it. A good example is the word "vector." There are actually 2 types of vectors mentioned: one from the linear algebra camp, the other from the vector calculus school of thought. These two types of vectors are actually quite different. A vector calculus vector almost always refers back to a 2 or 3 dimensional description of the motion or transmission of mass, energy, waves, and particles in a vertical/horizontal plane or in three-dimensional space; whereas a linear algebra vector more-often-than-not represents an arbitrary set of ordered numbers in a 1XN or NX1 matrix that is simply meaningless as a physical vector.

It's exactly what most of the 4 and 5 star reviewers say it is. The only real issue I have that no other reviewer (not even a 1, 2, or 3 star reviewer) mentions is this. The book doesn't provide notes for conceptual pitfalls that can and will arise when reading it. A good example is the word "vector." There are actually 2 types of vectors mentioned: one from the linear algebra camp, the other from the vector calculus school of thought. These two types of vectors are actually quite different. A vector calculus vector almost always refers back to a 2 or 3 dimensional description of the motion or transmission of mass, energy, waves, and particles in a vertical/horizontal plane or in three-dimensional space; whereas a linear algebra vector more-often-than-not represents an arbitrary set of ordered numbers in a 1XN or NX1 matrix that is simply meaningless as a physical vector.

For a pretty cheap price, this book provides some nice "tutor" type problems. It contains some odd problems that have answers in the back of the textbook. It goes step by step through the selected problems, often giving one example for each main type of problem discussed in the book. I would reccomend it!

This review book has maybe one measly sample problem per section. and solutions manual means that they put in answers to the example problems that they work out. Lets just say it's useless unless you only don't understand one basic problem per section.

I took one look at this supposed solutions manual and knew it would be worthless. The book for accompanying this is pretty bad too, so why should I expect to get a decent solutions manual. This is a broad broad overview of each section and has maybe three actual solutions worked out if you're lucky. I get so sick of these authors doing the least amount of work for people that are really trying to learn this stuff. Unfortunately I will have to find help elsewhere. Also, if you want to review the book review it on the book page not on the solutions manual page.

I took one look at this supposed solutions manual and knew it would be worthless. The book for accompanying this is pretty bad too, so why should I expect to get a decent solutions manual. This is a broad broad overview of each section and has maybe three actual solutions worked out if you're lucky. I get so sick of these authors doing the least amount of work for people that are really trying to learn this stuff. Unfortunately I will have to find help elsewhere. Also, this is a review for the solutions manual not the book.

This book was a major disappointment. Having taken 15 yrs off between getting my BS and starting grad school, I was looking for detailed examples of how to solve problems to refresh my memory. The solutions in this book skipped several steps and proved to be only marginally helpful, if even that. If you don't clearly understand the real text book, you won't get much help from this "solutions" manual. As in the text, there are not enough examples in this manual either. There is not even an example representing each subset of problems in the back of each chapter. Don't waste your money.

The student manual has been very helpful in getting me started back into the engineering mathmatics. It is nice to have a helper when I get stumped on some of the problems I know should be easy.

I am satisfied with the quality of the book and the time it took for the book to reach me.

This is a comprehensive compendium on engineering mathematics which I found fascinating and enjoyable to read. This is not a book for the novice but for those with a strong background in high school Mathematics. I used an earlier edition of this book as a graduate student and it is still among the texts I use as a reference book. Among the extensive topics covered include linear algebra, ordinary and partial differential equations, Fourier series, differential forms, graph theory, oscillation matrices, quantum symmetries, complex variables, probability and statistics, vector calculus, numerical and computer methods.


The book is a useful, helpful and handy reference for the engineering mathematics and applied mathematics student. The book is well written and the material is well organised with similar related concepts grouped together allowing a fluidity that facilitates its use. The author also presents various problems which when worked out will ensure a complete grasp of the subject.

Not all sections are included. Only one or two solutions per section. Very rarely they'll have an extra sentence or so of explanation, but that's about it.

I was talking about what a horrible book they use for Diff EQ to a friend from Indian and he lent me this.(quite sure they are the same)
Great book, not all inclusive, but shines a lot of light on the areas other books may have problems disclosing. Very easy to understand if you know anything about math.
I plan to get one of my own soon. I would say good investment for anyone going into engineering or anyone currently in engineering who for some reason cannot remember all 80000 rules and tricks math covers.
I hear it is very popular in India, and they have engineers everywhere.

This is one of the premiere works in engineering mathematics. Not designed to be a formal text in mathematics, the target audience is the engineering student, as the title implies. The text is very well written and there are a variety of additional solution manuals available. This is a very highly recommended text for the engineering student.

This is one of the premiere works in engineering mathematics. Not designed to be a formal text in mathematics, the target audience is the engineering student, as the title implies. The text is very well written and there are a variety of additional solution manuals available. This is a very highly recommended text for the engineering student.

Still waiting to receive the book. The book was due to arrive 13 December 2006, today is 10 January 2007.

I have found it helpful refreshing some of the mathematics I had forgotten.

It is so advanced that no one is able to study mathematics using this book. It's just samling of formules, not all even. I wouldn't recommend to use it.

the book is terrible because there are crappy examples and they go through all these proofs, but no one cares about that when you are assigned hw. but if your class is using this book, theres not much you can do about that. anways, i have the solutions manual for the even #'s. email me at briansuite@yahoo.com if you are interested.

Mathematics is charming and fun to read, only if it is presented in a thought-invoking way, as we see in the old-style classical math books. Sadly, the line has been broken here. In this book, the rich materials, since the book tries to encompass everything, were presented in a terribly dry and desperate way. The world is already full of miseries, so my friend, be nice to yourself and don't use this book as a textbook. Perhaps it better serves as a reference book, as some previous reviewer already pointed out.

The first time I came across this book was when I was appointed Teaching Assistant for a course called "Biomathematics" at IIT. At first, I was bit scared looking at the size of this book. As days progressed, I realized the very deep insight it gives for the UG engg students. The practical illustrations complementing the concepts are the highlights of this book.

The 4 star rating is because this book starts with very advanced topics and is not much suitable for self-study. Otherwise, it is a great Math book to have. Highly recommended for any UG/PG student who wants to learn the intricacies of engineering mathematics.

This is a really good text book. Much better than the previous version as it gives a clearer explaination of topics discussed.

The Student's Solutions Manual for Advanced Engineering Mathematics offers very little assistance for those actually trying to learn the material. The quality of the examples varies, but they are vague in general. Furthermore, there are key chapters with only a few solutions given, which are typically the simplest problems. The manual is helpful with certain chapters, especially since the book lacks good example problems. However, it is not a reliable aid for every topic covered in the text.

This book is an all-encompassing book dealing with all (I am not joking) topics of advanced engineering mathematics required by practicing engineers and students. This is not meant to be used as an introductory text during a math course but as a reference manual for practical applications once you go beyond your math course. If you are looking for a comprehensive math book with consistent notation and style of writing, look no further-get this book.

The quality of the book is good. It was shipped on time.

I used this book for my Electrical Engineering curriculum way back in 1977-1981, and I remember the pleasure I had learning Math from it. In some cases I hardly took notes in the class, but relied almost completely on the book to learn the subject. Well, it's almost 30 years later, and I've decided to re-learn the Math I loved so much but lost over the years. What a surprise to find Kreyszig's book is still around. I believe the reason for its longevity is just that it presents the complcated Math very effectively. When studying a particular subject, it was sometimes necessary for me to go back and re-read and re-read (the Math covered is not easy!), but the concept was there waiting for me to find it. I believe this book is an excellent tool for grasping some very complicates subjects.

This book is useless as a learning tool. It should never be used as the primary textbook in an engineering mathematics course. The explanations are incomplete and extremely poor. The author often forgoes a general explanation of new concepts. Instead the author tends to focus on a single example, forcing the reader to generalize the concept on his or her own.

Even as a reference its utility is dubious. In the 15 years that I've had this book, I have only succesfully extracted useful information from its pages a handfull of times.

This book is great as a reference. You are trying a problem in Complex Analysis, and you are stuck, and you want to recall the Cauchy Integral Theorem for multiply connected domains, and thats when you need an excellent resource like this one. Flip a few pages, get what you want, and get back to the problem.
BUT, if you want to LEARN things, if you want to know WHAT a multiple connected domain is, what the various theorems are, then NO....Kreyszig isnt what you need.
You need a textbook in Complex Analysis then, not a All-in-One reference manual, which is what Advanced Engineering Mathematics by Kreyszig actually is.
I will give it three stars, because it really is very comprehensive, an excellent addition to a Math Majors library. Or for that matter, to even an engineers library, but it certainly cannot be used to learn things for the first time.
Its a very good reference text, assuming you have learnt your ABCs from somewhere else. Although it covers a lot, it doesnt cover things in a way that would motivate students to learn new ideas or concepts. Its a mathematical cook-book, its only got the array of techniques in it, not the theory and the motivation.
For those, you need to try the traditional textbooks in the different areas.

The popular recommended 'text book' that this is, it really takes on a task too large to condense into some 1100 pages. You just can't do that. Okay, if you're great at Math and want to revise yuor concepts of have a quick reference, this is a decent book. Well, much better than decent. BUT, and here's what matters, if you want to UNDERSTAND what engineering math is about, you absolutely have to get text books for each of the subjects Kreyszig deals with: Gilbert Strang's Linear Algebra, DiPrima/Boyce for ODE and so on...this book won't get you there. Having said that, no book can do that!

This is a fantastic book for those of you who have done engineering math before. If you ever forgot certain concepts, this would be a great book to refer. It is not recommended for first year college students.
The examples are too few and some of them skipped quite a few steps. If your math is not strong, you will be frustrated in no time trying to work the missing steps. The concepts explained are not very clear.
After using this book for my coursework for a year, I came to the conclusion that to really grasp the concepts, I have to solve many problems. Why? Because the author is not good at explaining the concepts!

Material is poorly presented, examples are as vague as possible and the practice problems aren't even close to relevant to the material discussed. Please, whatever you do, DON'T buy this book. You'll be wasting alot of money on a paper weight. This book will make you question why you ever wanted to get into Engineering!

This book does provide students, who have taken a first course in differential equations, a good look at Fourier Analysis, Boundary Value Problems, and partial differential equations; however, you might wish to obtain a working knowledge of linear algebra before using this book for the before-mentioned reasons - the chapters dealing with linear algebra (six and seven) are awesome for review, but horrible for the beginning student.
Other than that, the book is a good resource when it comes to the review chapters on ordinary differential equations, multivariable calculus, probability, etc...
This is a recommended book for the engineer who likes to review math on those boring summer days...

Kreyszig obviously knows what he is talking about, but lacks showing it. It is hard to beleive that Mathematics book so thick has examples that miss complex steps, simply because these steps are deemed 'elementry' by Kreyszig's mathematic standards. The examples are workable, but they only take a few hours of analysing and calculating the multiple lines of mathematics he Kreyszig didn't feel like entering

I'm Civilian Engineering and I should admit I love this book. My thesis advisor owns one and I've used it several times. This is not a book for Mathematics, it's for engineers; you'll find whatever you're looking for, but don't expect a whole theory about topics, just the essentials of them. You can find topics from Calculus, Linear Algebra, Probability and so on.

I recomend this book to engineers as a consult book, you'll find quick answer to your problems. For students is a must-have which will help you really a lot.

This book is designed to be taught as part of a year long survey course covering those topics in Mathematics most often used by engineers. It is not, nor does claim to be, a definative text of all engineering mathematics. This book is generally used as part of a review course in first year graduate level engineering mathematics. It is expected that you have seen these topics before in a formal course.

If you are looking for a book with a more in depth treatment of one or all of the subjects covered in this book, look for something published by Springer Verlag and expect to pay out a lot more money.

If you are looking for a good introductory book then look for the Engineering Mathematics books by K.A. Stroud. They are elementary in there treatment and leave the proofs for the student to do. However, no formal knowledge of the subject is required and the reader is introduced to each subject in a simple easy to read format.

Finally, A good overall book for upper level undergraduate and first year graduate students in any science discipline is Basic Training in Mathematics by Shankar.

A great overview of the mathematics needed for electrical engineering (and probably other areas of engineering too). Reading this text has taught me enough to get by in all my introductory graduate level courses. More importantly, it covers enough that I can look up and understand something on any topic which isn't really covered in detail in this text (which is all of them).

I wouldn't recommend this textbook for someone who has a strong background in engineering mathematics, as it only provides a basic overview of the topics covered.

I recognize that this is the "bible" for engineering math, but I never found it stellar for any single topic. Its treatment of simple topics such as first and second order ODEs and linear algebra was certainly satisfactory, but when more advanced topics are presented there is simply too little coverage. I found it particularly weak in the coverage of PDEs and series solutions of differential equations.

In general a simple presentation of the material is made, and a simple example is given, but you never understand the guts of the process, so when a slightly more complex problem arises you don't know quite how to proceed. The simple example will work out magically that X and Y converge instantly, but then you try to work a problem where X or Y are different and you were never given enough information as to determine which one is the driving part of the process.

Tolerable text, and I understand why its used given its broad scope, but I second the "jack of all trades, master of none" review. You're better off buying three texts that actually present the material well than one that does it poorly.

This is one of the worst books I have ever seen on engineering mathematics. I tried to refer to it numerous times during my M.E. Masters program and found it worthless every time. There HAS to be better books on engineering mathematics - HAS to be.

A wonderful compendium of the most resaltant topics in applied mathematics. Obviously, the words ADVANCED and ENGINEERING must be understood before considering this book for science studies.

This text of Kreyzig tries to cover too many topics in one text. For example, partial differential equations chapter 11 does not even introduce the student to the Sturm-Lioville problem. As a physics student I do not recommend this so-called engineering text to supplement your understanding of PDEs. Its not even good as a reference. I highly recommend "Boundry Value Problems" by David L. Powers. His book treats the subject of PDEs rather well

Its fine for engineering students, i.e. cook-book approach, but not a very good text for science students

This is the book I used as a student and a graduate student and it is still the book I use as a reference book as a doctoral student! It is the complete reference textbook for any engineering mathematics student (and any student of applied mathematics). Though it is more difficult to use than Stroud (hence only 4 stars) it covers each topic in much more depth and also covers topics which Stroud does not even in his Advanced volume. I would recommend using Stroud first to learn the topic and then this book to master it. For the more advanced topics such as partial differential equations and advanced vector calculus this book is matchless. A must have reference book for any engineering/physical sciences student/researcher.

I am using this book in my undergraduate studies and in my opinion this textbook is not very good in explaining or demonstrating throught its example problems the concepts needed to successfully complete the exercises at the end of each section. Often I must refer to another text to get a better understanding on how to approach and ultimately solve the exercises. Additionally I feel this textbook is not very well organized.

Though "beautiful" is not usually an adjective for a math book, this book is the exception. The book is a handy reference for the engineer or the student of higher mathematics. It covers the basics of HIGHER MATH which is of great versatility. The organization and presentation of the material is excellent, grouping similar or "connected" concepts allowing a fluidity that facilitates its use. I love this book!

It is not unusual for those who failed to pass (or understand) their courses to look for cheap scapegoats. Some have blamed their lecturers, and some have blamed their textbooks. But I am not swayed!
Thus, despite all the negative rantings some reviewers have labelled against this "Advanced Engineering Mathematics", I will advise you to see for yourself. This book is superb! Erwin Kreyszig should be honoured with a twenty-one gun salute, for compiling this outstanding compendium.
The way this book dissected Numerical Methods, Differential Equation, and Vector Calculus, will rouse envy in many academic circles. The same applies to its unsurpassed analyses of Oscillation Matrices, Quantum Symmetries, and Linear Algebra. I wonder why all those condemnations! In fact, I will advise those complainants to go back to primary school.
As its name depicts, this text is an advanced book, and not an introductory one. Still, its author took the necessary pains in tabling an uncomplicated presentation. I will, with great pleasure, recommend it to any Engineering or Science student who needs an advanced mathematics textbook.