CLCP3
LanguageENG
PublishYear2014
publishCompany
Wiley
EISBN
9781118527009
PISBN
9780470971932
- Product Details
- Contents
Maths for Geoscientists is an accessible, student-friendly introduction to the essential mathematics required by those students taking degree courses within the Geosciences. Clearly structured throughout, this book carefully guides the student step by step through the mathematics they will encounter and will provide numerous applied examples throughout to enhance students understanding and to place each technique into context. Opening with a chapter explaining the need for studying mathematics within geosciences the book then moves on to cover algebra, equations, solutions, logarithms and exponentials, statistics and probability, trigonometry, vectors and calculus. The final chapter helps to bring it all together and provides the students with sample projects to test their knowledge. Worked applied examples are included in each chapter along with applied problem questions which are a mix of straightforward maths questions, word questions (developing maths to words), and more involved questions that involve the manipulation and interpretation of real and synthetic data. This book will uniquely address a major gap in the market: teaching relevant mathematics to geoscientists in an accessible way making use of current-day research problems and real datasets. There will be plenty of worked examples in the text and questions at the end of each chapter. The main objective of the book will be to enable students to understand how to apply the maths to real geoscience questions
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