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The necessity for this book is well stated by the author when he declares in the preface: “There have been so many new engineering developments in the last few years that engineers and those preparing to become engineers are seeking mathematical aids to meet the situation”. Herein lies one of the prime causes for the modern demand that mathematics must become more practical. With the rapid growth of science and the advance in all branches of engineering, the need for the intelligent application of mathematical principles has become urgent. Unfortunately, such application cannot be easily culled from the usual school and college text-books, for they have much too great a bias for theory and, as a consequence, new books are constantly being called for which lay special stress on the practical aspect of the subject. Such books are no longer of the former rule-of-thumb type, nor of the older practical mathematics brand where the treatment had very little, if any, theoretical background; but, to provide for existing needs, mathematical fundamentals are served up with just as much theory as will make them intelligently palatable.
Mathematical Aids for Engineers
By Raymond W. Dull. Pp. xii + 346. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1946.) 22s. 6d.
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Mathematical Aids for Engineers. Nature 160, 349 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160349b0
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