TY  - BOOK
AU  - Owen, George E.
TI  - Fundamentals of scientific mathematics
PY  - 1961///
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper & Row       
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Algebra
KW  - Geometry
N2  - For a book that was originally written in 1961, this book is surprisingly modern. The very clear treatment of matrices and vectors in a scientific mathematics context, then linking their use to elementary calculus, as well as to cylindrical and spherical coordinate systems is excellent.

This would make a very useful book for a mathematician/physicist/chemist/engineer to read before starting a degree.

George Owen also wrote another very good book at a slightly higher math level called The Universe of the Mind. The two books would go well together

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