Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics
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  • Great introduction to mathematical economics!
  • A must read text book for any economics undergrad student
  • A must read for graduate students in economics
  • not so good
  • The best math textbook for economist
Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics
Alpha C Chiang
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
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ASIN: 0070108137

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The best-selling, best known text in Mathematical Economics course, Chiang teaches the basic mathematical methods indispensable for understanding current economic literature. the book's patient explanations are written in an informal, non-intimidating style. To underscore the relevance of mathematics to economics, the author allows the economist's analytical needs to motivate the study of related mathematical techniques; he then illustrates these techniques with appropriate economics models. Graphic illustrations often visually reinforce algebraic results. Many exercise problems serve as drills and help bolster student confidence. These major types of economic analysis are covered: statics, comparative statics, optimization problems, dynamics, and mathematical programming. These mathematical methods are introduced: matrix algebra, differential and integral calculus, differential equations, difference equations, and convex sets.

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5 out of 5 stars Great introduction to mathematical economics!.......2007-07-18

I enjoy Chiang's writing style. I've been reading up on mathematical methods in preparation for a masters econ program, and feel very comfortable with the material thanks to this textbook. The international edition is a good bargain.

5 out of 5 stars A must read text book for any economics undergrad student.......2006-04-02

I found it extremely easy to read and at the same time rigorous enough to settle the bases. The author knows very deeply the economics students needs of mathematical methods and achieves a precise and complete explanation of all notions I needed to know for my undergrad course. I strongly recommend it during the first or second year.

4 out of 5 stars A must read for graduate students in economics.......2006-02-26

Alpha Chiang's text should serve as the foundation for all quantitive analysis done in economic theory. It is an invaluable teaching tool for graduate students in economics and will help them better understand the mathematical techniques that have become so necessary for economic modeling.

I am not a highly quantitative person myself, but I found Chiang's book comprehensible and a useful reference guide in my gradaute economics classes. Along with Hal Varian's "Microeconomic Theory" and Jan Kmenta's "Econometrics", I would say that Chiang's "Fundamentals of Mathematical Economics" should serve as sacred literature for any prospective graduate student in economics.

3 out of 5 stars not so good.......2005-10-14

the text carries to excess the concept of "keeping the presentation as simple as possible". but in general you cannot understand or solve problems with a fifth grader's ability to abstract them.
especially the relunctance to use matrix notation makes some topics actually harder to understand once they become more complicated.
furthermore I find the structure quite confusing since the text amounts to a monotous blabla - clear definitions might be helpful and some rigor would keep the reader conscious instead of drifting off. after all the text is not so bad but I think we deserve something better. blume might be better.

5 out of 5 stars The best math textbook for economist.......2005-09-30

That is why it used everywhere, in nearly all economic departments. I strongly recommend you buy this book. It really helped me in my undergrad, and it is helping in my graduate courses. If you want to buy another book to accompany this, get Simon and Blume book. One person (probably little masochistic) was saying that Chiang has so many examples, blah, blah, blah. Look, not everyone is a math genius, undergraduate student's need Chiang, it's even useful for graduates. Math is used quite too excessively in economics...showing off?
Statics: Analysis and Design of Systems in Equilibrium
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Not a bad text, but not the best either
  • Good book.
  • Not bad!
Statics: Analysis and Design of Systems in Equilibrium
Sheri D. Sheppard , and Benson H. Tongue
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"[These authors speak] to the students in a manner that engages their minds in today's world. Students will grasp how statics enables us to analyze practical, everyday problems ... as well as advanced designs. It is much more practical than similar texts."--Roy Henk, LeTourneau University
"The descriptions of forces are great. The examples are great. Chapter 6 [focuses] only on [free body diagrams]. This is a novel concept that I think is great. I believe that the repetitive introduction of the [free body diagram] will really help the students. I would adopt this book for Chapters 4 and 6 alone."--Makola Abdullah, FAMU/Florida State University
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Your coursework in engineering mechanics helps you develop key analytical skills that you will rely on throughout your subsequent coursework and career. That's why Sheppard and Tongue's Statics: Analysis and Design of Systems in Equilibrium, and their accompanying volume, Dynamics: Analysis and Design of Systems in Motion, focus on helping you build the skills and knowledge you need to succeed.
Drawing free body diagrams starts here.
The authors continuously emphasize the importance of communicating solutions through graphics. They focus on drawing correct free body diagrams through an innovative illustration program used throughout the text, and dedicate a full chapter to free body diagrams to help you develop this vital skill.
Strong problem-solving skills start here.
Sheppard and Tongue introduce a consistent analysis procedure early in the text, and use it throughout, including all worked examples. This problem-solving methodology helps you develop the skills to apply these principles systematically in your analysis of mechanics problems.
Learning to simplify the complexities of engineered systems starts here.
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3 out of 5 stars Not a bad text, but not the best either.......2007-09-27

Some parts of this text are easier to read and follow/understand than others, which isn't as important if the professor teaches well. Perhaps the biggest gripe I have about this book is that there are no answers to the problems in the text to check your solution against. Not after the problem itself, or in the back of the book, none! The lack of answers wouldn't be such an issue if the book explained everything better and gave a broader range of better, more relevant examples to follow. That being said, the book isn't that bad. On a positive note, it does have summaries in the back of every chapter, which helps to review quickly.

4 out of 5 stars Good book........2007-04-24

In general, the book is well written and the information is provided in a logical and clear manner. It is very difficult to write a book on this subject and to keep it informative, interesting and most important simple. There are numerous examples in this book, maybe too many. In general, a good book. Note: The price is high!

4 out of 5 stars Not bad!.......2006-11-27

As a second-year aerospace engineering student, I'd have to say I'm generally pleased with this book. The professors hand-picked it after being disappointed with the text they had been using in previous years, and I think they did well. There is only one major issue I, and my classmates, find with this text...

There are examples, and lots of them... almost too many. We would get assigned a couple chapters to read in this book and would end up wading through about 200 pages, 75% of which were examples that spanned many pages due to the larger text. Most of the examples don't even compare to what the end-of-section questions might ask...

Otherwise, I find that my friends in other engineering disciplines (mechanical, civil, etc.) are jealous that we aerospace guys get to use this book!
Enzyme Kinetics: Behavior and Analysis of Rapid Equilibrium and Steady-State Enzyme Systems (Wiley Classics Library)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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Enzyme Kinetics: Behavior and Analysis of Rapid Equilibrium and Steady-State Enzyme Systems (Wiley Classics Library)
Irwin H. Segel
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Covers enzyme kinetics from its most elementary aspects to such modern subjects as steady-state, multi-reactant kinetics and isotope exchange. Offers an understanding of the behavior of enzyme systems and the diagnostic tools used to characterize them and determine kinetic mechanisms. Illustrates and explains current subjects such as cumulative, concerted and cooperative feedback inhibition and metal ion activation.

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4 out of 5 stars Understanding Enzyme Kinetics.......2006-01-16

Most biochemistry texts allot very little space for enzyme kinetics. Usually, there is a brief discussion of Michaelis-Menten single substrate kinetics. Oddly enough, in these days of gender equality, many texts fail to mention that the fathers of kinetics were actually women. This book continues the discussion by providing the basic theories that allow us to access enzyme action. The behavior of enzymes in the presence of various types of inhibitors and the effect of allosteric effectors are also discussed. It also discusses Bi Bi kinetics and gives the beginner a great starting point is the study of enzyme kinetics. All of this is accomplished at a level easily understood by the average biology or chemistry major.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent text.......2005-12-16

I recently took a graduate course in enzymology and purchased this text as a supplement to my lectures. It proved invaluable as a guide to approach problems in enzyme kinetics. Dr. Segel derives the equations and interprets his graphs for the reader to follow. This is truly comprehensive and authoritative; however it is dry and technical. The author thoroughly describes initial velocity kinetics, multisubstrate kinetics, as well as Cleland kinetics. I would recommend this to students in biochemistry, as well as a reference for those doing work with enzymes.

3 out of 5 stars Encyclopaedic enzyme kinetics.......2005-01-28

Irwin Segel wrote his book in 1974, but it was reprinted (without revision) in 1993 and remains available, still apparently selling steadily.

The main thing that will strike any reader coming to this book for the first time is that at nearly 1000 pages it is far longer than any of its competitors. Chapter 9, which gives a blow-by-blow account of all the multireactant mechanisms that the author could think of, accounts for 340 pages all by itself, making it considerably longer than Alejandro Marangoni's whole book "Enzyme Kinetics: a modern approach", also published by Wiley, but in 2003. The problem with this approach, it seems to me, is that nature does not provide examples of all the kinds of behaviour that Segel can think of, but does provide examples of some kinds of behaviour that he does not mention, such as kinetic cooperativity (i.e. cooperativity that cannot be attributed to interactions between two or more catalytic sites). For that reason, I think that any attempt to treat the subject in an encyclopaedic fashion must ultimately fail.

Experts in fast-reaction kinetics (which I am not) typically classify textbooks of enzyme kinetics into ones that treat fast reactions badly and ones that don't treat them at all. Segel's book comes into the latter category, and that is perhaps a virtue. For the first 942 pages one might think that he had made the same choice over statistical treatment of data, but then at the very end there are two pages that have all the apearance of an afterthought. Until then, all of the many figures either show no experimental points, or they show points that lie exactly on the lines they are supposed to fit. About the two-page Appendix itself, perhaps the less said the better.

Having said that, there is also plenty to like in Segel's book. If you need information on points that lend themselves to the encyclopaedic approach -- for example if you want to track down one of the many graphical methods for analysing kinetic data that appeared between 1950 and 1975 -- then this is the first and most convenient place to look.

5 out of 5 stars Enzyme Kinetics Bible.......2000-06-06

This technical treasure is the bible of enzyme kinetics. Any enzyme mechanic or kineticist who has somehow missed this little tome does not know what they are missing. My copy is in tatters from freqent use and will have to be replaced soon...

5 out of 5 stars An honored place on my bookshelf........1999-12-18

Segel's book is the ultimate in enzyme kinetics. I bought my first copy in 1978 and have probably used it 300 times since then. It deserves an honored place on every biochemists bookself.
Soil Strength and Slope Stability
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  • Overall a well written textbook
  • Best book on the subject i have ever seen
Soil Strength and Slope Stability
J. Michael Duncan , and Stephen G. Wright
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Authoritative, state-of-the-art guidance to soil strength and slope-stability analysis

Through clear, concise language and practical examples, Soil Strength and Slope Stability describes state of the art methods for evaluating soil strength, and for analysis, design and stabilization of slopes in soil. The principles of limit equilibrium analysis, and appropriate use of computer programs are emphasized. Methods are described for checking the results of complex analyses, and for presenting results of slope stability analyses clearly. These are illustrated through many examples.

Written by two recognized experts in the field, Soil Strength and Slope Stability features:

Visually informative with more than 250 illustrations, Soil Strength and Slope Stability is a complete and practical resource for geotechnical engineers, engineering geologists, civil engineers, geologists, environmental engineers, and students.

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4 out of 5 stars Overall a well written textbook.......2007-10-08

I am an engineering-in-training working in the field of geotechnical engineering. I have only read the first 4 chapters so far, and my opinions are based on those chapters only.

The book starts with discussions of case studies and reasons for slope failures. It then gradually transitions to theories and practical applications of analyzing shear strength and slope stability. I think the book does a good job of presenting material on slope stability by combining knowledge gained from past experiences with theories and current research work.

The book is written for people with at least some basic understanding of soil mechanics. I have found the book pretty interesting, and would recommend it to people who have some time to look to study this material.

5 out of 5 stars Best book on the subject i have ever seen.......2007-04-14

This book is a fine combination of simplicity and thoroughness regarding slope stability. Useful for practical engineers and those who want to get a deeper undestanding on the subject.
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    Equations of State And Pvt Analysis
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    This title covers a wide range of topics related to the Pressure Volume Temperature (PVT) behavior of complex hydrocarbon systems and documents the ability of Equations of State (EOS) in modeling their behavior. The main objective of this book is to provide the practicing engineer and engineering student with tools needed to solve problems that require a description of the PVT of hydrocarbon systems from their compositions. Because of the dramatic evolution in computational capabilities, petroleum engineers can now study such phenomena as the development of miscibility during gas injection, compositional gradient as a function of depth and the behavior near critical hydrocarbon systems with more sophisticated EOS models.
    Theory of Value: An Axiomatic Analysis of Economic Equilibrium (Cowles Foundation Monographs Series)
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    Theory of Value: An Axiomatic Analysis of Economic Equilibrium (Cowles Foundation Monographs Series)
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    5 out of 5 stars The canonical Book on General Equilibrium Analysis.......2004-02-06

    This short book (roughly 100 pages) gives a clear exposition of the basic elements of axiomatic general equilibrium analysis. The first chapter introduces all (sic!) mathematics used in this book, mainly some topology of euclidean space and basic facts about convex sets. In principle only knowledge about counting is necessary, but some "mathematical maturity" is clearly required. I would advise the reader to learn the relevant topology elsewhere ("Introduction to Analysis" by M. Rosenlicht suffices) and use the first chapter only for reference.

    The main text covers the Arrow-Debreu-McKenzie-model and its interpretation, proves its logcial consistency (existence) and investigates its efficiency properties. The formal model is clearly distinguished from its interpretation, which allows Debreu to introduce uncertainty in the model by a simple reinterpretation of the commodity space. The whole approach is axiomatic, which wasn't that usual when Debreu wrote the book in 1959. This book has changed the standards of mathematical rigor in economic theory.

    This book is still used as a reference and deserves a place on every economic theorists bookshelf.

    5 out of 5 stars A classical book........2001-04-25

    This book is a classical. It's important you'll buy for your library.

    5 out of 5 stars Difficult, but it's best !.......2000-04-15

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    Stochastic Calculus of Variations in Mathematical Finance
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      Capital Theory, Equilibrium Analysis and Recursive Utility
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        4 out of 5 stars The Mathematics of Thermodynamics.......2006-01-23

        Rating a book like this is very difficult, because it's not like anything else. Thermodynamic Formalism is a book on the mathematical analysis of statistical thermodynamics, and its very dense. By "mathematical analysis" I mean the logical derivation of relationships of symbols from abstract definitions. Therefore, if you can show any subject matches the definitions, all the remaining results hold, whether the system is a gas, an economy, or a painting. Ruelle mentions early that this has been done in constructive quantum field theory and differential dynamical systems. There is no physics in the work, except to try to explain the symbols. It reads rather annoyingly like a poorly written homework set by an extremely clever graduate student.

        That said, when you've figured out what's going on it's an rewarding book. This completely formal approach does give a complimentary perspective on the topics covered. In the end, though, this is a book on Gibbs ensembles and classical thermodynamics, not on Fermi or Bose quantum systems. I do not know what would be required to incorporate those, and how many results will still hold when the probability measures are changed.

        Appendix B, Open Problems, presents topics that were unsolved at the time of publication of the first edition (of 1976) at least one for every chapter after the first, and Appendix D is an update for the second edition. This is a very nice touch. There are also simple problems at the end of every chapter so you can figure out how little you understand before you move on to the next chapter.

        I work in (experimental) solid state physics and have some (not much) scholastic background in applied analysis at the graduate level, and still I had to spend an afternoon trying to figure out what the symbols meant (that is, how x|L should be read, not what it corresponded to in real life; that was step two of three). The book didn't get any easier. As interesting as the book is, I have to warn anyone without a very strong mathematical background away from this book, at least until he's worked through an analysis text of some kind.

        4 out of 5 stars Detailed, advanced and complete treatment........2005-06-17

        Thermodynamic formalism is an area of mathematics developed to describe physical systems with a large number of components. A combination of advanced physics and mathematics, it is used to describe dynamic systems moving towards equilibrium and quantum mechanics applied to systems. The level of this book is advanced, generally the material would only be suitable for students at the graduate level. Exercises are given at the end of each chapter, although solutions are not provided. Additional background material on the necessary physics is included in a series of appendices.
        The treatment of thermodynamic formalism is brief, detailed and complete. I strongly recommend the book as a textbook or study aid in that area.
        Advanced Strength and Applied Stress Analysis
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        Book Description

        This book provides a broad and comprehensive coverage of the theoretical, experimental, and numerical techniques employed in the field of stress analysis. Designed to provide a clear transition from the topics of elementary to advanced mechanics of materials. Its broad range of coverage allows instructors to easily select many different topics for use in one or more courses. The highly readable writing style and mathematical clarity of the first edition are continued in this edition. Major revisions in this edition include: an expanded coverage of three-dimensional stress/strain transformations; additional topics from the theory of elasticity; examples and problems which test the mastery of the prerequisite elementary topics; clarified and additional topics from advanced mechanics of materials; new sections on fracture mechanics and structural stability; a completely rewritten chapter on the finite element method; a new chapter on finite element modeling techniques employed in practice when using commercial FEM software; and a significant increase in the number of end of chapter exercise problems some of which are oriented towards computer applications.

        Customer Reviews:

        3 out of 5 stars An advanced text.......2006-08-18

        Make sure that you keep your deformable solids book because this book does not contain any of the basics for reference.

        5 out of 5 stars Composite Beams in Bending.......2005-03-31

        Well, I have lots of book and this is one of the books I have in my bookshelf. Obviously I have not read the entire book but I did of course read pages from 302 to 309. I was particularly interested in Composite Beams in Bending and those 7 pages did help me. I am not sure if there were any errors in the mathematical calculations as noted by some earlier reviewer but these 7 pages looked okay to me.

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        4 out of 5 stars Extremely Complete and Thorough.......2002-11-18

        Mathematical derivations are VERY complete and relatively straight forward. There is a TON of material covered, and I constantly refer back to it in my graduate-level Mechancial Engr. courses. - even F.E.M.

        1 out of 5 stars Advanced Strength and Applied Stress Analysis.......2001-10-18

        I have taught Advanced Strength of Materials at three different universities and without a doubt this is the worst textbook that I have ever used or seen. The text was selected before I started teaching at New Mexico Tech and I did not have time to change before the semester started. There are numerous mistakes in the example problems, the material is never explained in a fashion that the students can understand, the material is badly organized, and the author never states what assunptions are built in to the equations that he uses. A totally unsatisfactory book!!

        1 out of 5 stars Too many mistakes!!!!.......2001-09-12

        I agree with the reader from Rocheste,NY. The book is great for an engineer, but the solutions given for the exercises are too often wrong.
        Therefore, I don't recommend this book for a student and I would be a bit ashamed of myself if, as a professor of mechanical engineering, I was the author of it.

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