THIS book is professedly written for the practical man who, having already a considerable knowledge of subjects that lend themselves to mathematical formulation and discussion, has yet a very ...

About 10 years ago, Alan Garfinkel, a professor in the life sciences department at the University of California, Los Angeles, got a call. It was from his dean, who said that the department had ...

As an undergraduate, I took five semesters of calculus. The last semester on partial differential equations supposedly gave me a head start for grad school in my chosen field of chemistry. But, unlike ...