Mathematical Methods and Algorithms for Signal Processing

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Publisher does not provide CDROM in latest printing.......2007-01-09

Recently purchased this book and from reading parts of it the book is a very good source of the mathematics associated with signal processing. However the publisher in the latest printing I just received no longer provides the promised CDROM and the listed website where to obtain the MATLAB material on the CDROM is also no longer supported by the publisher. An e-mail response to my inquiry about the missing MATLAB code source from a representative of the publisher indicates that the book is too old and their is no need to provide the material anymore.

Target Audiance - Choose Wisely.......2006-08-03

This book is certainly technically sound. That being said, I find the notation confusing and the text relatively inacessible. The book is likely a good selection for someone wanting to study the innermost mathematical details of modern signal processing. Unfortunately, the text spends less time on actual implimentation and usage than would be preferable for audiances focussed on real world applications.

excellent collection of signal processing math.......2006-01-05

this book is really good for a signal processing researcher.
generally it is difficult for a new researcher to connect math to the signal processing methods. conventional signal processing books only give the bit of math as needed in the signal processing books and this makes it difficult for an inexperienced student.
in this book mathematics is explained in more detail and in the introduction of each chapter it is mentioned why and where you would need this math knowledge.
at the end of each chapter application sections are provided
where problems from signal processing are explained for that particular mathematical method.

there are also exercises.

however, this book can be difficult for a new graduate without any establishment of signal processing concepts and problems.

it is an excellent book for a phd student in my view and it can be a classic.

2nd Printing, not 2nd Edition........2005-09-08

I do not know about the contents of this book yet, but one thing I can tell is that the book is still in the first edition(unlike some review), but it's the second printing.
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Bingo - the typos are (almost) gone.......2004-02-27

I finally got hold of the second edition....and the typos are gone - well, almost....:)

Statistical Digital Signal Processing and Modeling

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This is an excellent book for advanced DSP topics
Clear, concise, and clean
awesome book
Examples ! Examples! Examples
Jack of all trades, master of some

Statistical Digital Signal Processing and Modeling
Monson H. Hayes
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ASIN: 0471594318

Book Description

The main thrust is to provide students with a solid understanding of a number of important and related advanced topics in digital signal processing such as Wiener filters, power spectrum estimation, signal modeling and adaptive filtering. Scores of worked examples illustrate fine points, compare techniques and algorithms and facilitate comprehension of fundamental concepts. Also features an abundance of interesting and challenging problems at the end of every chapter.

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This is an excellent book for advanced DSP topics.......2006-06-12

This book has great material on least squares filtering and spectral estimation techniques. And with Hayes providing the Matlab code to implement the formulas, it is a great help to the student in being able to run the code and see what the outputs should look like. The book reads well and is very easy to use. But it is not a substitute for an intro DSP book like Oppenheim/Schafer or Proakis.

Clear, concise, and clean.......2005-05-28

This book very clearly explains advanced topics in DSP. The notation is consistent and very clean, as well as the book layout and the writing. The examples are useful and the review section is very helpful. This is how a technical book should be written.

awesome book.......2003-10-18

Clear examples, clean derivations, and easy to understand style has Monson Hayes' his signature written all over it. I have his schaum's outline on DSP, and its just as good. I haven't finish perusing this book; i am currently on signal modeling (ch.3, i think) where pade, shank and other methods are derived, and i've already found plenty of application to work on.

homework problems include both mathematical and computer (matlab) exercises that help cement understanding the material at the end of each chapter.

applicable, yet theoretically appealing, this book is best for those who has had an introductory DSP course, although it is very much self-contained - the author starts with a comprehensive review of linear algebra and random processes - it will serve the serious student with an interest on statistical description of signals and system very well.

Examples ! Examples! Examples.......2001-03-24

The book is beautiful, really neat. It contains all the essential topics that you will expect in a Spectral Analysis book. I stumbled across it in library and was impressed with the treatment that the author gave this subject. I now have a copy of my own. The topics range from basic to advanced including a few topics on adaptive filter theory.

Each treatment is almost immediately followed by an example, simple but powerful way to introduce you to this topic. I found this one feauture made the topics covered really enjoyable. Linear algebra review captures the essence of the style of this book. It is a welcome addition to this area in DSP. The one by Stocia is too mathematical to be called an introductory book. This one is way much above Stocia's mathematical nightmare.

Jack of all trades, master of some.......2000-10-03

I used this book to learn nearly all the topics covered in a hurry, in order to take the prelim exam at Berkeley. While it was a humbling experience, it made me truly learn to appreciate and love this book, and its great presentation and organization.

It starts off with a very good introduction to linear algebra and probability theory for engineers, which should give you a taste of the effective way that this book is laid out. The format is excellent, and the important points clearly highlighted. This is a real joy to read!

The magic doesn't wear off into the later chapters, which include topics in signal modeling, least-squares methods, MMSE estimation, Levinson algorithm, spectral estimation, and adaptive filters.

I find this book to be a great source for both learning and reference, and as a bonus it includes Matlab codes for all the algorithms mentioned here.

One complain is that there are certain topics that could be covered more effectively. For example, the relationship between the different signal models and filtering is not mentioned, and this could help understand the motivation of the different signal models in the first place.

Book Description

This book is intended for graduate students at the first year or advanced graduate level in the areas of statistical and adaptive signal processing, as well as practicing engineers. The goal of this book is to provide a unified, complete, and practical treatment of spectral estimation, signal modeling, adaptive filtering, and array processing.

The text is written in an intuitive manner and includes many illustrative examples. In addition a sufficient number of computer based experiments are included that illustrate important concepts to the reader for ease of implementation. Throughout the book a sufficient emphasis has been placed on applications for the purposes of demonstrating the utility of various techniques.

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This authoritative volume on statistical and adaptive signal processing offers you a unified, comprehensive and practical treatment of spectral estimation, signal modeling, adaptive filtering, and array processing. Packed with over 3,000 equations and more than 300 illustrations, this unique resource provides you with balanced coverage of implementation issues, applications, and theory, making it a smart choice for professional engineers and students alike.

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Broad coverage but not focuss........2003-11-10

I buy this book about 3 years ago (2000).
My aim was to get a better understanding on statistical dsp.
I got the lecture on advanced dsp on my master degree. I must confess that for me this is not an easy subject to master. Therefore a clear and well explained book on this subject is a very important for me.
But I was dissapointed when I got this book!
Yes, it is broad of coverage, but the content is not focuss.
The connection between previous and next parts of discussion and chapters mostly does not show a clear link.
Yes, it is full of facts, but I need more than bulk of facts: THE WAY OF THINKING, why we do and why we don't do.
It didn't help me to master the subject.
For the reader who want an easy to read and clear in explaination as well as good reasoning and examples, I would suggest to go for another book such as Steven M Kay (Volume 1, Estimation Theory). For me this is a lot better investment of time and money!.
Thank you for reading my review.

where is the errata for this book?.......2002-09-13

I am trying to study from this book and, because there are some mistakes, I am interested where I could find the errata. I tried at McGraw-Hill without success. Any idea?

Thank you.

A good read, especially for an advanced course on DSP.......2002-07-20

This book gives a brief overview of fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing and Stochastic methods, before graduating to the core topics, namely Signal Modeling and Parameter EstimationNon-parametric estimation, Optimal filter design and structurs, RLS, LMS and Adaptive Filters.

Though high on content, the topical organization of the book leaves a lot of room for improvement. A logical sequence of topics to be studied by an advanced level DSP student is recommended as follows - 5. Linear Signal Models, 9. Signal Modeling and Parametric Spectral Estimation, 6. Optimum Linear Filters, 7. Algorithms and Structures for Optimum Linear Filters, 10. Adaptive Filters, 8. Least Squares Filtering and Prediction, 11. Array Processing. You may have to keep skipping advanced topics towards the end of a chapter, only to come back later after having gone through related background material in other chapters. In this respect, this volume is indeed inconvenient.

However, the authors have more than made up for all its faults with the depth of content, and also the breadth. Assuming that this book is meant for an advanced reader, it is very much self contained, from the ground up, barring a few minor low-level details, which the authors have assumed prior knowledge of.

Chapters 11 and 12 essentially deal with very specialized applications for Radar Engineers and people dealing with esoteric math involving Signal Processing techniques - the case in point are the topics on Blind Deconvolution and Unsupervised Adaptive Filtering.

The authors have also provided some rudimentary background information on Holor algebra (matrix and vector algebra esp.)

I would recommend the reader to keep a more basic text on Mathematical methods for Signal Processing as a cross reference while using this book. A case in point is Mathematical Methods and Algorithms for Signal Processing, by Todd K. Moon and Wynn C. Sterling.

avoid this book.......2002-03-22

This book was the text for the first part of a sequence on statistical signal processing which I took. We covered chapters 1-7, chapters 4-7 in great detail.
This book almost never explains things well. It has a lot of detail and a lot of repetition, but the essence is usually poorly explained. For every important concept, like the Levinson-Durban algorithm or Yule-Walker equations, I had to read other books to figure them out. Stoica has more insight in 2 pages on the Y-W equations then Manolakis has in a dozen. Also the structure and flow of the detailed developments is astonishingly bad. For example, there are algorithms with steps out of order.
Another problem is the huge number of mistakes. It will take you about an hour per chapter to fix each chapter using the publishers errata sheet. But there are errors not included on the errata list, so watch out.
The few good things about this book include a very detailed table of contents, and useful introductory discussions for each chapter and chapter 1.
This book is a disaster and reads like a so-so first draft. Shame on the publisher for not enforcing more quality. Instead of this loser, I recommend Adaptive Filters by Haykin, Spectral Analysis by Stoica, and Mathematical Methods for Signal Processing by Moon and Stirling among others.

a good text book with things to improve.......2001-04-13

I had the chance to read most of the text, and selectively attack some of the problems. Here are my opinions:

Pros 1. Some of the chapters, including the first few introduction ones, are very well written, and enjoyable to read; 2. Cover a great deal of technical contents; 3. surely echos the title "statistical and adaptive".

Cons 1. some chapters are a little messy, including the most important ones such as chapter 6 and 10. Much better approaches could be used; 2. excersizes are not so well-designed. Not many really innovative/inspiring problems are given. Need more diverse Difficulty levels. Generally a bit easy. 3. references are not very supportive. If you find one section or discussion interesting, you would like the book to thread a few summit journal papers in this issue to refer. It has not done an outstanding work in this sense.

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Climatic factors such as rain, snow, and other forms of precipitation can have a significant impact on the transmission of radio, light, or heat waves in the atmosphere. Communication systems may experience a loss of signal caused by the effects of rain on a radio link. Radar systems may experience interference that distorts the amplitude of the target signal. Any remote sensing system that relies on the propagation of electromagnetic waves must therefore be designed to take these factors into account.

Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Through Rain was written to help system designers in such fields as meteorology, telecommunications, radar, and aircraft guidance systems face the challenge of predicting and compensating for these potentially serious weather-related effects on communication or remote sensing systems around the world and above the surface of the earth.

Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Through Rain describes and analyzes the interaction between electromagnetic waves and various forms of precipitation. Interdisciplinary in approach, this book provides a solid in-depth treatment of the underlying physics as well as applications in communications, the aerospace industry, and meteorology.

Through a combination of observations and models, Dr. Crane provides both students and practitioners of communication system design with a reliable statistical base for determining the frequency and severity of precipitation- generated attenuation episodes that can significantly impact on vital electromagnetic waves in the atmosphere.

An invaluable book for professionals and advanced students in electrical, aerospace, and communications engineering, remote sensing, physics, and meteorology, Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Through Rain represents a significant addition to the literature and an important contribution to our understanding and management of this problem.

Precipitation patterns can have a major impact on telecommunication and radar systems around the world. The frequency and duration of rain or snow in any given area at any given time can determine the extent to which vital electromagnetic waves may be compromised—causing interference or even failure in a system. The result of more than 30 years of research, Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Through Rain provides a clear analysis of attenuation by rain and other forms of precipitation on a wide range of vital communication systems.

Using observations and models, the author offers predictable statistics of rain events which can help to achieve more effective system designs. Its practical interdisciplinary approach makes Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Through Rain an indispensable resource for engineering professionals and advanced students in electrical, aerospace, and communications engineering.

Major topics covered include:

Effects of Rain
Rain Structure and Rain-Rate Statistics
Rain-Rate Climate Models
Modeling Attenuation by Rain
Attenuation Mitigation via Diversity
Worst-Month Statistics
Estimating Risk

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Difficult to Follow, Overly Empirical.......2002-09-22

To start with, the title is really something of a misnomer. A better title would be "Empirically Estimating Long Term Attenuation Statistics of Terrestrial Radio Links". His results do not extend beyond radio frequencies and they are difficult to apply to anything other than terrestrial links. And he does not really provide much insight into EM wave propagation so much as empirical parameters which are difficult to validate.

Better for a tutorial on the subject of interaction of radio waves and the atmosphere is: Doppler Radar and Weather Observations by Richard J. Doviak, Dusan S. Zrnic or any of a number of books on radar meteorology. Apologies to the communications community but the radar guys have the most thorough treatment of the field, because it is the object of their study, rather than merely an impairment.

Crane's claim to fame is that you can use his book (and included Excel file) to make predictions about link availability for radio and radar installations. One shortcoming is trying to extend his result to other than surface to surface and surface to satellite links. It's possible, but I don't believe he's much help.

There is a similar ITU model and either is about as easy to use. I do not believe that one is decisively better than the other. Your choice of model may depend more on you institutions prejudices and traditions or your customers' "comfort level" with either model.

One problem with this book, IMHO is that its "derivations" are overly empirical and difficult to extend. (I do not think I am being uncharitable in expressing the opinion that they are mathematically unsound in places and the mathematically unsound derivations often depend on physical assumptions which he never really justifies.) I've seen people produce extremely slipshod analyses based on misapplication "Crane's model." And these results, inherited at third hand and barely understood, become gospel. Admittedly this is not so much the fault of Crane but of his would-be disciples.

Another problem is that his models are not easy to apply, as presented, one needs to depend on his spreadsheets. (This is Crane's fault.) It is difficult to extend his spreadsheet to mobile platforms, such as aircraft and ships. It would be nice to have the climate zone boundaries in tabular form so that one could model such platforms as they move around the earth.

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This volume in the Elsevier Series in Electromagnetism presents a detailed, in-depth and self-contained treatment of the Fast Multipole Method and its applications to the solution of the Helmholtz equation in three dimensions. The Fast Multipole Method was pioneered by Rokhlin and Greengard in 1987 and has enjoyed a dramatic development and recognition during the past two decades. This method has been described as one of the best 10 algorithms of the 20th century. Thus, it is becoming increasingly important to give a detailed exposition of the Fast Multipole Method that will be accessible to a broad audience of researchers. This is exactly what the authors of this book have accomplished.

For this reason, it will be a valuable reference for a broad audience of engineers, physicists and applied mathematicians.

The Only book that provides comprehensive coverage of this topic in one location.

Presents a review of the basic theory of expansions of the Helmholtz equation solutions

Comprehensive description of both mathematical and practical aspects of the fast multipole method and it's applications to issues described by the Helmholtz equation

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Some additional content from the book.......2006-01-03

Link to the table of contents, book outline and preface
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~ramani/FMM_HELMHOLTZ/prelims.pdf

Link to Chapter 1 of the book
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~ramani/FMM_HELMHOLTZ/Introduction.pdf

Link to the cover
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~ramani/FMM_HELMHOLTZ/GumerovWT.pdf

Short table of contents
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xxiii
Outline of the Book xxv

Chapter 1. Introduction 1
1.1 Helmholtz Equation 1
1.2 Boundary Conditions 15
1.3 Integral Theorems 25
1.4 What is Covered in This Book and What is Not 37

Chapter 2. Elementary Solutions 39
2.1 Spherical Coordinates 39
2.2 Differentiation of Elementary Solutions 65
2.3 Sums of Elementary Solutions 73
2.4 Summary 86

Chapter 3. Translations and Rotations of Elementary Solutions 89
3.1 Expansions over Spherical Basis Functions 89
3.2 Translations of Spherical Basis Functions 93
3.3 Rotations of Elementary Solutions 117
3.4 Summary 137

Chapter 4. Multipole Methods 139
4.1 Room Acoustics: Fast Summation of Sources 139
4.2 Scattering from a Single Sphere 143
4.3 Scattering from Two Spheres 150
4.4 Scattering from N Spheres 161
4.5 On Multiple Scattering from N Arbitrary Objects 168
4.6 Summary 170

Chapter 5. Fast Multipole Methods 171
5.1 Preliminary Ideas 171
5.2 Multilevel Fast Multipole Method 196
5.3 Data Structures and Efficient Implementation 207
5.4 Summary 222

Chapter 6. Complexity and Optimizations of the MLFMM 225
6.1 Model for Level-Dependent Translation Parameters 225
6.2 Spatially Uniform Data 227
6.3 Error of MLFMM 236
6.4 Optimization 238
6.5 Non-uniform Data 248
6.6 Adaptive MLFMM 264
6.7 Summary 283

Chapter 7. Fast Translations: Basic Theory and O(p^3) Methods 285
7.1 Representations of Translation and Rotation Operators 286
7.2 Rotational-coaxial translation decomposition 306
7.3 Sparse matrix decomposition of translation and rotation operators 313
7.4 Summary 338

Chapter 8. Asymptotically Faster Translation Methods 339
8.1 Fast Algorithms Based on Matrix Decompositions 340
8.2 Low- and High-Frequency Asymptotics 361
8.3 Diagonal Forms of Translation Operators 387
8.4 Summary 416

Chapter 9. Error Bounds 417
9.1 Truncation Errors for Expansions of Monopoles 417
9.2 Truncation Errors for Expansions of Multipoles 432
9.3 Translation Errors 439
9.4 Summary 462

Chapter 10. Fast Solution of Multiple Scattering
Problems 465
10.1 Iterative Methods 466
10.2 Fast Multipole Method 472
10.3 Results of Computations 487
10.4 Summary 498

Color Plates 499

Bibliography 509

Index 515

Pulsed Power Systems: Principles and Applications (Power Systems)

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Long over due
Great ground-up review of pulsed power technology

Pulsed Power Systems: Principles and Applications (Power Systems)
Hansjoachim Bluhm
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Pulsed-Power Systems describes the physical and technical foundations for the production and application of high-voltage pulses of very high-power and high-energy character. In the initial chapters, it addresses materials, components and the most common diagnostics. In the second part, three categories of applications with scientific and industrial relevance are detailed: production of strong pulsed electric and magnetic fields, intense radiation sources and pulsed electric (plasma) discharges.

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Long over due.......2006-10-30

This scholarly work has a good balance of the essentials of pulsed power components and techniques against applications and possible uses of this technology. 99 % of the material on pulsed power subjects is only available in I.E.E.E. Journal and proceedings, with some spill over into the internet as Phd. work. A lot of the technology had been locked in companies like Physics international, Maxwell Labs. Etc. that had to change their direction when the Berlin wall came down because there was no longer a need for high power flash X-ray machines to simulate nuclear weapons effects.

Great ground-up review of pulsed power technology.......2006-09-19

This text is a great ground-up review of pulsed power technology. The text starts with a unified survey (~40 pages) of dielectric breakdown (gas, liquid, solid) in chapter 2, and continues with a brief review of energy storage capacitors, Marx banks, basic inductive pulsers, and rotating machines in chapter 3. Next, the author covers quite a wide variety of opening and closing switching technologies. The author continues with fundamental info on PFNs, MITLs, and brief info on pulse transformers and HV switchmode power supplies. There's a chapter on power and voltage adding, one on diagnostics, and one on typical large pulsed power systems (e.g., Z and Hermes III). I enjoyed the topic of cumulative pulse lines, which I'd never heard of before. I didn't find the final three chapters too useful, which are on commercial and industrial applications, but they may be of interest to you.

This book is quite expensive, but it fills in a lot of practical gaps that P. W. Smith does not cover in his book Transient Electronics, e.g., breakdown, switching, and diagnostics. Smith does, however, cover the topic of pulse generation in greater detail. The information in this book is better organzied and better presented than in Pai and Zhang's Introduction to High Power Pulse Technology, although the latter is so cheap you might as well own a copy. The literature references at the end of the chapters are quite useful (e.g., G. A. Mesyats cites a lot of Russian literature in his book that is not easily available) but they are not any better than Smith's.

The disk included with the book includes a transmission line simulation code LEITER which I found a little hard to use.

My only qualm with this book is the price, really I'm not sure there is any justification for the high price except that it's a good book in a field that doesn't have many (any?) good intro/survey texts. Get your company or your professor to purchase I copy. Overall, highly recommended.

Statistical Analysis and Optimization for VLSI: Timing and Power (Series on Integrated Circuits and Systems)

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Statistical Analysis and Optimization for VLSI: Timing and Power (Series on Integrated Circuits and Systems)
Ashish Srivastava , Dennis Sylvester , and David Blaauw
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Statistical Analysis and Optimization For VLSI: Timing and Power is a state-of-the-art book on the newly emerging field of statistical computer-aided design (CAD) tools. The very latest research in statistical timing and power analysis techniques is included, along with efforts to incorporate parametric yield as the key objective function during the design process. Included is the necessary mathematical background on techniques which find widespread use in current analysis and optimization. The emphasis is on algorithms, modeling approaches for process variability, and statistical techniques that are the cornerstone of the probabilistic CAD movement. The authors also describe recent optimization approaches to timing yield and contrast them to deterministic optimization. The work will enable new researchers in this area to come up to speed quickly, as well as provide a handy reference for those already working in CAD tool development.

Finite Element Analysis of Electrical Machines (Power Electronics and Power Systems)

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Finite Element Analysis of Electrical Machines (Power Electronics and Power Systems)
Sheppard J. Salon
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In Finite Element Analysis of Electrical Machines the author covers two-dimensional analysis, emphasizing the use of finite elements to perform the most common calculations required of machine designers and analysts. The book explains what is inside a finite element program, and how the finite element method can be used to determine the behavior of electrical machines. The material is tutorial and includes several completely worked out examples. The main illustrative examples are synchronous and induction machines. The methods described have been used successfully in the design and analysis of most types of rotating and linear machines.
Audience: A valuable reference source for academic researchers, practitioners and designers of electrical machinery.

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The only book on the subject.......2002-07-31

There are lots of books on finite element analysis. There are a good number of books on finitie element analysis for the electrical engineer. This is the only book devoted solely to the FE method for the analysis of electric machines, so it is kind of hard to say that this is the best because it is the only horse in the race. But I can confidently assert this because it answers most of the questions dealing with the area. Prof. Salon has done a very good job of putting a lot of results in a very slim volume. he has sought to answer most of the question concerning analyzing different machines and he has devoted just enough mathematics to clear up a number of important issues concerning the accuracy of the methods. Most specifically, he dealt with the air gap mesh problem very clearly and succinctly.

He also tells you how to go about calculating the inductance, the flux linkage, and the magnetic flux density from the vector potential. This is a very complete treatment of a very broad subject.

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The series of texts on Classical Theoretical Physics is based on the highly successful series of courses given by Walter Greiner at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Intended for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students, the volumes in the series provide not only a complete survey of classical theoretical physics but also an enormous number of worked examples and problem to show students clearly how to apply the abstract principles to realistic problems.

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More Careless Typos and Mistakes.......2002-12-08

I heartily concur with Piskorski's earlier review except I think he was a bit generous with the stars. It seems that this may be a problem with VERY POOR editing. I hope the publisher reads this. I gave a similar review of Greiner's Stat Mech book. I don't read German; so, I can't comment on the original books in this series, but the translations are extraordinarily sloppy.

There are numerous incorrect equation references. Typos in equations are abundant - often the incorrect symbol or letter appears. The grammar is sloppy - the translator should be ashamed. As far as references to other work, I didn't see any. A very serious omission in an academic text. However, there is a nice history of optics and E&M at the end of the book; maybe this compensates for the lack of references a bit.

The typos and mistakes make this book unacceptable for an undergraduate text. Instead I would highly recommend David Griffiths' "Introduction to Electrodynamics" - by far the class act for undergraduate E&M texts.

A good book but the English version has many errors........2000-07-09

I do agree with the previous reviews that the book is of great didactic value. Indeed, the books which offer an indepth knowledge on electromagnetism are very often so complicated that they put the student off (e.g. Jackson). Other books strive for simplicity and offer a didactic approach at the expense of thoroughness.

Greiner's book combines the two aims. It is very detailed and at the same time even the undergraduate student is able to understand it.

There is, however, one BIG problem. The book is fraught with errors. Being a junior lecturer at a Polish university I had to prepare a course on electrodynamics so I read the whole book paying attention to the details.

The first problem is the language. As a native speaker of Polish I am not an expert, but you do not have to be one to notice grammar or spelling mistakes. Also, some indices seem to have their origin in the German terms instead of English ones (e.g. the index a - ausserhalb - outside).

The derivations and formulae are another problem. Very often reading a formula you will be confused because a wrong letter has been used or a symbol is in the wrong place.

Referring is also a problem of this edition of the book. Very often the number of a formula to which a specific problem refers is wrong. You will have to find the right formula yourself (this is especially visible in Chapter 14).

I am really sorry to say this, but for the above reasons I would NOT RECOMMEND buying this book in its present form. Wait for the second edition (corrected I hope) and in the meantime use the German version or borrow the book from the library.

Excellent text of electromagnetics........2000-03-09

This text is a real gem!The author strives for educational excellence and costantly achieves his aim.This text is an advanced course in electromagnetic theory,but the author does not requires from you ,you are Einstein or have mystic power of discerning as too often happens when you buy an advanced text,instead he introduces in an exceptionally clear way all the mathematics you need.I think this work belongs to the best German tradition of lucidity and completeness.I have learned a lot of new things about electromanetics,reinforced what i just knew and enjoyed a lot also the biographies of famous phycisists.I hope there will be soon a release in English of his two books of mechanics.

Best reference for students as well as for researchers........2000-02-28

This book can be an excellent reference for physics students as well as for researchers. All important aspects of classical electrodynamics are in this text.

Perfect electrodynamics text for advanced learners........1999-08-20

This is not only an excellent text of electrodynamics for advanced learner but also a great introduction book for beginners. Greiner's excellence in writing made it possible for this compact book to contain all important topics in electrodynamics with carefully worked examples and clear derivations.

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