Yang - Engineering Mathematics with Examples and Applications

1. Tables in Chapter 10
2. Tables in Chapter 11
3. Tables in Chapter 16
4. Tables in Chapter 17
5. Tables in Chapter 18
6. Tables in Chapter 19

1. Figures in Chapter 1
2. Figures in Chapter 2
3. Figures in Chapter 5
4. Figures in Chapter 6
5. Figures in Chapter 7
6. Figures in Chapter 8
7. Figures in Chapter 9
8. Figures in Chapter 10
9. Figures in Chapter 11
10. Figures in Chapter 12
11. Figures in Chapter 13
12. Figures in Chapter 14
13. Figures in Chapter 15
14. Figures in Chapter 16
15. Figures in Chapter 17
16. Figures in Chapter 18
17. Figures in Chapter 19
18. Figures in Chapter 20
19. Figures in Chapter 22
20. Figures in Chapter 23
21. Figures in Chapter 26
22. Figures in Chapter 28
23. Figures in Appendix B

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Now he is Reader at Middlesex University London, Adjunct Professor at Reykjavik University (Iceland) and Distinguished Guest Professor at Xi'an Polytechnic University (China). He is an elected Bye-Fellow and College Lecturer at Downing College, Cambridge University. He is also the IEEE Computer Intelligence Society (CIS) Chair for the Task Force on Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management and Director of the International Consortium for Optimization and Modelling in Science and Industry (iCOMSI). With more than 20 years' research and teaching experience, he has authored 10 books and edited more than 15 books. He published more than 200 research papers in international peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings with more than 17,000 citations. According to Thomson Reuters' Web of Science in 2016, he is a highly cited researcher.

He serves on the Editorial Boards of many international journals including International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation and Elsevier's Journal of Computational Science (JoCS). He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Optimisation.

Though there are currently over a dozen good books on engineering mathematics, some are very lengthy (over 1000 pages), and some have very specific audience. Most students find a thick book of over a thousand pages intimidating, especially for the first-year undergraduates. Though all the topics may be important in such big books, no one can be expected to learn all the topics in a short time. In addition, topics have to be selected well to be truly relevant to the courses in engineering and thus there is no need to provide the same level of details for all topics. On the other hand, specialized books on a selection of special topics may be useful to some students, especially for senior undergraduates, but these books can be frustrating to most readers when certain topics may be unfamiliar or with overwhelming in-depth mathematical analysis and terminologies. Therefore, this is a strong need for a textbook with a good balance of topic coverage and the right level of details so that most students can use it with confidence and be able to use engineering mathematics for problem-solving in its familiar context of engineering and real-world applications.