Applications Books

The book does an execellent job of explaining and showing how to use a difficult Pro/E module. The documentation from PTC is weak!! I highly recommend this book to all level users. It is hard to fine a good book. This is a good book.

This is a fantastic book! I learned Pro-Sheetmetal from scratch with the help of this book.

You will have the best book that you can buy on the market. It will give you not only tutorial of commands of sheetmetal module but also some others design methods required to be a good designer.

This book has been a very helpful tool; it has helped me by giving me easy to follow sample programs. Having these examples to follow has given me the opportunity to find out what my mistakes were and correct them with less hassle. This book is a great tool for any student programming in more than one language. It teaches by examples, giving a hands-on approach to each example. Out of all of the books that I had to use to complete my project, this one book is the one that I constantly came back to look up any problems that occurred. With out this book my research this summer would have been a very difficult task, but with the sample coding to guide me through, I have produced a great project.

This is a terrific interfacing program book so far I have found in this site. The book provides a thorough description and detailed illustrations in interfacing programming between different languages with a lot of hands-on examples. As everybody knows, the easiest way to learn a programming language is via examples. I found that this book is an example-oriented one, and it combines theoretical knowledge with the practical programming techniques together to show me how to develop interfacing programs step by step.

Besides the interfacing technology, the author seems to have a deep understanding for each programming language. I found that in chapters, the author provides some useful hands-on technologies, such as the pseudo-components in the Visual Basic to access the
Database, recovering the developed program codes in VisualWorks in Smalltalk and developing a DLL in MATLAB. I cannot find those hands-on technologies from any other textbooks or professional language reference books in the market.

Finally, this book provides me an easy-to-learn style, which means that each example in the book starts from the fundamental level, and little by little, it gradually adds more complicated components and finally I can get a finished program that contains the completed parts I need to interface to codes developed in other language.

This book takes the theoretical ideas that are present in other programming books and makes it a reality. With easy to follow, practical examples, it guides the reader through techniques to communicate between different programming languages. Finally, there is a book that makes understanding how to relate information across the languages barriers a simple task. And with seven different languages, it is the only comprehensive work to do so. It was very helpful to me, because I needed to be able to send messages between two different pieces of code that I didn't have the time to rewrite. The thorough examples allowed me to quickly learn how to use the techniques and expand upon them so that it would do that which I needed it to. I learned a lot of things from this book that, previously, I didn't know were possible.

First, let me preface this by saying my review is based on the FIRST EDITION of the book. Also, I have not read the entire thing, but much of it. I had no idea what a Lie Group was before picking this book up and found it to be an excellent introduction to a very fascinating subject.

The autor gives a fairly rigorous explication of the fundamentals of manifolds and groups in the first chapter, skipping proofs of harder facts. He then spends the rest of the book focusing on how to find symmetry groups of differential equations and their interpretation. He goes through detailed calculations and provides many helpful examples, without which I would have no chance of understanding the book. He gives very readable and easily applicable formulas for prolongation of group actions and vector fields, and supplies the heavy-handed theorems relating subvarieties of the prolonged group actions to symmetry groups of the DE's.

Algebraists will find the book lacking in details and probably fairly myopic in scope. Applied people such as myself will find it indispensible as a resource for actual computation. The focus of the book is consistent with the original formulations by Lie and Noether and is still relevant and largely untaught in standard courses. Reading this book, I have learned some very helpful TECHNIQUES, and I suspect if that's what you're looking for this book will be a Godsend.

Not proper for first contact with the subject ,but as bibliographical resource, this is a realy good one.

Application of symmetries and Lie groups to differential equations (primarily PDE's) is a hot issue in contemporary Mathematics and Physics. Unfortunately, only few textbooks are available on this area.

The book is one of the best attempts to put this topic into an ordered, easy to studying form, despite of its being a rapidly developing and thus hard to teaching issue. It survived two editions, and I am sure this is not the last.

I am also sure that anyone who is involved in the area, will need to read this book, or have already read it.

This is a incredible book on applied functional analyses.Every topic is motivated with an applied problem.The definitions are motivated either by the aplication or by the subsequent use.There are remainders showing you the inteconections between the subjects and finally the index and the Symbols index are both complete and very usefull.The book is not complete. However he missing subjects usually are in the other colection by the same author.

This well-written text covers the fundamentals of modern linear operator theory and points out most of its connections to other branches of mathematics and physics ( differential equations, integral equations, finite elements, elasticity, quantum mechanics, and more). It includes all the basic theory on Banach spaces, Hilbert spaces, orthogonality, Fourier series, etc., and a chapter on the PDE's of mathematical physics. The excercises are both illustrating and challenging. I find it useful for undergrads, graduate students, and as a reference for working mathematicians. Must read companion volume 109 also.

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Prof. Zeidler has done the world of mathematicians an incredible service by writing this book. It is self-contained, very lucid, beautifully organised, and actually takes the trouble to relate various topics to each other. It makes the field of Functional Analysis more accessible to students taking their first course in it. It also is a handy reference for practicing mathematicians. I loved the little schematics in the book which point out connections between seemingly disconnected ideas. All in all- a great book. If you don't have it, and are interested enough in Math to be reading this review- go buy it!!!!

This is a university textbook from the University of Alaska, from classes taught by Yogi Nirvair Khalsa. If you have had the opportunity to view these classes (also available through Amazon), which were part of an actual Distance Learning college-level course, you know you are in for a treat. Nowhere else will you find such a complete guidebook to Kundalini Yoga. All of Nirvair's video workouts are contained within this book in their entirety, along with other goodies. Suitable for beginners, with intermediate and advanced series, as well as targeted series such as "Heal Your Back Now!", and a complete listing of all postures used individually. Best book on yoga out there!

I use this book as a text for my classes at the University of Alaska Anchorage and is the product of my 25 year yoga teaching career at UAA. I teach beginning, intermediate and yoga for runners and skiers. The book serves all my classes. It includes ninety two basic postures pictured and explained. Hand, eye positions and locks pictured and explained. Breath overview and eleven breathing techniques. Thirteeen beginning exercise series pictured and explained. Seven intermediate exercise series pictured and explained. Meditation overview and thirteen meditations and kriyas. Healing through energy transfer techniques. Waking and preparing for sleep information and series. Foot massage chart and explanation. Staying healthy with food and recipes. How to create your own warm up series. Deep Relaxation and healing techniques.

If you've never tried yoga before and feel intimidated by the more advanced moves of other types of yoga this is a great book for you. I took the class back in college and still use it now that I am in the military. All I have to say is wow! After coming back from training and trying the sets again I realized how great it really was.
He also includes a section for runners and skiers in this book that athletes might find helpful.
If your ever attending UAA make sure to try and attend the class!

I use the book pretty much for all my application problems related to metal forming. It is pretty useful, and probably the only top notch art written on metal forming.

This book is very strong in metal forming processes, especially in forging. You can find practical issues about processes and also FEM. The language of this book is excellent.

This book is the bible of metal forming. I strongly recommend it if you are studying or working in metal forming.

I`m very intresting this book (disk

What I appreciate about this book is that details of many aspects of astronomical computations are clearly explained together with extensively documented full C++ source code and references for further information. As a bonus, extensive star catalogues are supplied, for use with, for example, astrometry.

C++ is *not* my language of choice, but the authors seem to have done a masterful job of using C++ features well, while avoiding obfuscation. Initially at least, I am translating things as I go into Mathematica, as a check that I am understanding what I am reading.

All in all, for getting under the hood, I think Montenbruck and Pfleger provide exceptional value for money.

This book does not use c-like/c++ but true c++. It begins with Vec3D class hiding private menbers. I learn many things of objective astronomical calc from this book.

I like reading AutoCAD books. I think Shumaker and Madsen are the best authors'. This book guides you through advance designing such as Technical drawings and other information for fast tips.

The one book you'll need to use AutoCAD-14 efficiantly.It makes the task, of learning one of the most difficult programs, manageable. It's the text most used at collage. Get it!!

Great for advanced students. Easy to understand with thousands of pictures to help guide you through your studies.

No exageration--this book changed my life!!-from a simple Autocad draftsman, dependent on others, I learned how to write my own programs and adapt Autocad to the specific needs of my office. I had no programming experience, but I quickly became the office expert--and my paycheck shows the results!!

I learned Autolisp in school about 6 years ago and like most students promptly forgot it as soon as the test was over. This book has proved invaluable in reacquiring the programming skills I learned (and forgot) so long ago. It is probably the best book for beginners in Autocad as well as Autolisp programming since most of it is explained in a simple and easy to understand fashion.

I have been using AutoCAD/AutoLISP since 1984 and this book helped me get started. After reading and using the examples I easily increased my productivity using AutoCAD 20-30%. I currently suport and teach AutoCAD classes and AutoLISP in Plain English is the text book I use for my introduction class to AutoLISP.

George Head makes the most technical concepts easy to understand and [even more important] to implement. The examples used are easy to follow and can be readily modified for use in any industry.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning AutoLISP

I never did make it throughout all the 101 games. They were designed on Microsoft 8K Basic Rev.4.0. David H. Ahl is the Founder of "Creative Computing".

By typing in the game you learn how the basic code controls may code functions and algorithms. Like many other technical items this information has been sway surpassed by the industry but it is still fun to mix and match code.

Back in the Golden Age of Microcomputing (roughly from '75 to '89 or so) the way people shared programs wasn't through the internet. Instead, it was through typing in program listings in the backs of magazines. "Compute!'s Gazette" was my means of getting software.

When I recently came across a copy of Ahl's "Basic Computer Games" I had to snatch it up immediately. There, contained in 101 program listings are games of varying degrees of quality, but many the games from that Golden Age are in there. Especially that Star Trek(TM) game. [Star Trek is a trademark of the Paramount Pictures Corporation]

Many of the games are just plain silly. Who knows why Ahl included them? Bunny, Poetry, Combat, just to name a few. But there are enough good ones in there to elicit a wave of nostalgia in those of us who lived through (and gamed through) those golden times.

This was the beginning for many people to their love affair with computers. Many simple games that you program yourself in Basic, one of the first computer languages. Not only could you learn simple progamming form this book, but have something tangible to show for it! Easy to use with set-by-step instructions.