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Mitch Wheat has been working as a professional programmer since 1984, graduating with a honours degree in Mathematics from Warwick University, UK in 1986. He moved to Perth in 1995, having worked in software houses in London and Rotterdam. He has worked in the areas of mining, electronics, research, defence, financial, GIS, telecommunications, engineering, and information management. Mitch has worked mainly with Microsoft technologies (since Windows version 3.0) but has also used UNIX. He holds the following Microsoft certifications: MCPD (Web and Windows) using C# and SQL Server MCITP (Admin and Developer). His preferred development environment is C#, .Net Framework and SQL Server. Mitch has worked as an independent consultant for the last 10 years, and is currently involved with helping teams improve their Software Development Life Cycle. His areas of special interest lie in performance tuning |
Wednesday, September 19, 2007Mathematics Books/Material Online (much of it free!)
Here are a few mathematics resources that I have found useful.
Introduction to Complex Analysis: WWL Chen http://www.maths.mq.edu.au/~wchen/lnicafolder/lnica.html This is very clearly written and better than most books I have read. The explanations and examples really stand out. Complex analysis and Functional Analysis: Douglas N. Arnold. http://www.ima.umn.edu/~arnold/502.s97/complex.pdf http://www.ima.umn.edu/~arnold/502.s97/functional.pdf 2 excellent documents. The first is probably a little more accessible than the second which requires a substantial mathematics background. A First Course in Complex Analysis: Beck, Marchesi and Pixton http://math.sfsu.edu/beck/papers/complex.pdf First Course in Linear Algebra http://linear.ups.edu/download.html Cauchy-Schwarz Master Class: by J. Michael Steele Whilst this book is not free, several sample chapters are downloadable (http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~steele/Publications/Books/CSMC/CSMC_index.html ). A truly remarkable book whose clarity and insight is a rarity amongst such books, which often gloss over details and leave the reader baffled. Although a specialised work, I have come across very few mathematics books that can equal it as an educational tool. If you are about to embark on a postgraduate Mathematics (or indeed undergraduate) course of study make sure you read this book. List of Free Mathematics Books: a great resource! http://www.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.html This should be your first port of call if you are looking for free online material. There is another list of free online Textbooks here: http://linear.ups.edu/opentexts.html Introduction to Tensor Calculus and Continuum Mechanics http://www.math.odu.edu/~jhh/bookpdf.zip by John H. Heinbockel Concrete Mathemathics, 2nd Edition. (aimed at CS postgraduate students) http://www.amazon.com/Concrete-Mathematics-Foundation-Computer-Science/dp/0201558025 Not a free book, but if you are about to pursue Computer Science postgraduate studies in algorithmics, complexity analysis or a related subject, then this work is required reading. If you know of any other high quality work, free or otherwise, please let me know. |
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