The text is mathematically rigorous, making extensive use of vector calculus and multiple integrals. If you are looking for an introductory text for civil engineering applications (i.e. one-dimensional, steady flow for the most part), Wilcox's book is inappropriate. I don't mean to sound critical, but the reviews stressing the books clarity can only have been written by guys with geek packs and thick, black-frame glasses.

THIS BOOK IS ONE OF A KIND. With out a doubt, this is the best introductory book I ever read on Fluid Mechanics. I'm really surpriced that it's out of print.

Why do I say this? Well, I have read three other introductory Fluid Mechanics books (cover to cover). Two of them are consider classics by Fluid Mechanicians. I have also referenced countless of other books looking for better explanations. But I must say, this book has by far the most complete and best explanations on the physics on fluids. If you really want to get good introductory insights on fluid behavior, this is the book for you.

Warning though... This is not your typical fluids book. If you are looking to learn how to solve problems by pattern recognition, this is not the book for you. It doesn't have lots of examples. What it does have is good explanations, good mathematical rigour, excellent writing style, excellent fundamental examples and anologies (for better understanding of concepts) and lots of test problems. Ah! It has wide coverage of the field. Just to give you an example, how many introductory books do you see out there that have dedicated whole chapters to topics like vorticity and one-dimensional compressible flows.

If you are a student who has gone through a first course in fluids and wish to read other similar books on the subject to get a better feeling for the subject, this is your book. If you haven't completed a basic course in fluid mechanics, but feel up to the challenge, then by all means read this book.

Thanks Dr. Wilcox. Your students were right in encouraging you to write this book.

Overall, this and the second volume combined do well to cover the major topics of evolutionary computation. Unfortunately, the IOP (the publisher) is not very good making the books (especially the first volume) available. I used both volumes for a course I teach in evolutionary computation. I am one week from the end of the semester, and most of my students received volume 2, but are STILL waiting for volume 1.

By the way, the contents of this book are available online (and free) at the IOP website, which I did not find out until the semester began.

The first volume provides a very broad coverage of the "evolutionary" literature. Reading this first volume will probably save you a lot of time. The evolutionary literature actually becomes quite large these days. The focus of this first volume is on broad coverage, not details although some chapters are already quite advanced.

If you need a fast coverage of the literature in evolutionary computation, this is the book. Pointers to all decisive contributions to the field are there. Reading from cover to cover might be difficult if the purpose is to introduce one to the field, but this is certainly the reference i would suggest to students and researchers new in this field. Each chapter is self-contained and references to the most important works for each chapter is provided at the end of the chapter.

Volume I provided the general theory of evolutionary computation. This second volume on the other hand aims at introducing the reader to more practical aspects of evolutionary computation.

While i found the first volume great, this second volume lacked the details that are required to provide an intuition of the working of advanced evolutionary techniques. I feel that "How to solve it" by Michalewicz and Fogel and "Genetic algorithms + data structures = evolution programs" by Michalewicz both provide this experience useful to implement evolutionary techniques, by not trying to trade-off pages for understandability.

I would not recommend this book because it tries to introduce advanced aspects that are too difficult to cover in a single chapter each. If you really want to understand the practice of evolutionary techniques, you need a good intuition of how the various operators and structures work on real problems, just reading a few pages will not do the job.

Honestly, I did not read it. I look forward to have it. I gave the book five star according my evaluation to the Volume 1 and my respect to David B. Fogel.

Don't get your hopes up too much. Not all of the problems are solved. The problems that are solved are solved OK but not always in the best way. Still, I'd buy this book all over again, since "Intro to stat mech" by Chandler is pretty cheap to begin with. Just think of it as paying for 1 book.

This book is really one of the better book on statistical physics. It is short and concise but it is impressive the amount of physics discussed in this book!
And the presentation is really modern.

I really enjoyed the observations of professor Bailin about gauge theory, which is quite useful in the field of submoleculer physics and wave theory. However, his writing is quite scientific, which is to be expected in this type of field, but if particle physics floats your boat, then this would be a good book to buy.

Bailin & Love is a really great book to begin learning supersymmetry from. I read this book while simultaneously reading the first few chapters of Wess & Bagger's susy and sugra text. Much of the detailed calculation and attention to details is missing in B&L and can be found in more sophisticated texts (such as Wess & Bagger and the Weinberg text). I found B&L a good place for wordy explanations which are sorely lacking in W&B. B&L also does a good job of connecting susy to phenomenology by introducing the minimally supersymmetric standard model. The susy in B&L is done in four-component notation to make it more familiar with QED and electroweak calculations. On top of this, all of the calculations are done with component fields; superfields are used only for organization. No formalism of supergraphs is used. Supergravity is also introduced, once again in a more wordy fashion than W&B. Apparently, much of the susy phenomenology is similar to the "Supersymmetry Primer" article by Stephen Martin....

String theory in Bailin & Love is done in a similar fashion as the susy: lots of words without the messy calculation. B&L don't bother with conformal field theory at all and use basically the "old covariant quantization". Once again though, B&L is a great thing to be reading as a companion to Green Schwarz Witten or as a companion to Polchinski.

In the end, Bailin & Love is a great place to begin learning about supersymmetry and string theory. I read it after a year of quantum field theory and found it very quick and easy to read. Bailin & Love does a good job of getting the reader in a good position to read the more advanced texts (Wess & Bagger, Weinberg for susy and GSW and Polchinski for strings). Unfortunately, there are many typos in the equations. Corrections can be found at the author's page ...

This book begins with an introduction to MATLAB, language and graphics. I found this useful (fprint instead of disp, for example). Many engineering problems are set up and solved using MATLAB functions and m-files Applications of Fourier Series, the Dynamic Response of Second-Order Systems, and problems in ordinary and partial differential equations are presented. Many of the problems are specialized (consider the forced vibration of a pile embedded in an elastic medium, for example). Overall I liked the book, it presents a brief overview of the mathematics upon which each problem is based, and the m-files are well documented. I'm using it in an Applied Mathematics class.

I read this text years ago as a former student. His updated version is even better. From the InHour Equation to Modern Reactor Dynamics this is a good grounding Control Theory text. I still use it as a reference for control theory as an electrical engineer.

This book is a very nice introduction if you already have some notions of QFT. It can happily supplement Lowell Brown's book for instance. Its main characteristics is conciseness, it goes straight to the point, in the minimum expenditure of time and effort, without sacrifying mathematical correctness. Unfortunately some important topics are almost absent from the book, such as Ward identities, or infrared divergences. But the book remains self-contained despite this.

It was 15 years a go that I got this book as a part of a lecture by Dr. Broek. Over the years I have come across many books on this subject. I have to admit that this book is one of the best introductory material written on DTA. There are other books with probably additional data, however, what separates this book fom the rest, is Broek's ability to write in a coherent and easy to follow format.

Unfortunately, since the book is not in print the price is a bit too steep for a new copy.

Also try "Structural Life Assessment Methods" by "Liu" - sold through ASM.

Intended for introductory undergraduate level in quantum mechanics. Ferry did a thorough job in covering the basics including tunneling and perturbation theory. This book is fairly easy to understand, which make this a good reference good.