Artur Kosimov Kosimov itibaren Kaltakul, Özbekistan
The professor with whom I did my undergraduate physics research with gave me this book when I graduated. At first, I felt guilty. I had Mathematica, Matlab, and links to online references on my desktop, and thought it would surely gather dust. I was very wrong. The book is organized perfectly for those in the physical sciences. I'm not a math major; I don't have all this "math" business on tap. My CRC usually has the solutions to my problems when I've hit an impasse. I did knock it down one star, though. When publishing something like this you have two options: "unwieldy but readable" or "portable dead sea scrolls." This publisher choose the latter. I will be in bifocals at the age of 40. I'd much rather a giant slab of a tomb that requires two men to carry. That's literally what undergraduate students are FOR, Chapman and Hall. Seriously.