Engineering Mathematics

I wanted to re-educate myself in engineering mathematics, having passed my A levels in Pure Maths and Applied Maths over 40 years ago. I bought the "Basics" edition of this work. The full "Engineering Mathematics" edition is the better buy as it includes the "Basic" edition. Both editions, i.e. the full and the Basic versions, are excellent books, that lay out clearly the main principles of the different topics and test your understanding of what you've read with progressive exercises. The two versions of Engineering Mathematics are suitable for any mathematics course even though the titles might mislead you to view them as suitable only for engineering students.

A great book fair all the necessary course work and assignments up to BTEC Level 3.

Having worked through every example in this book, from cover to cover, I can say that this book is brilliant for a BTEC National level 3 in engineering, infact it is the most important text any student studying this course can buy. I disagree with another review which portrays the book as a university level text, as it is not. The book covers all of the mathematics required for the National (1st and 2nd year) as well as covering some of the basics of 1st semester undergrate mathematics for engineering. I would give this book 5 stars, however, in some cases there are typos, and miscalculations in both worked and non-worked examples, and also the final question Integration by algebraic substitution for example, seems that it can't be solved. Final note: Brilliant book, excellent purchase, just look out for the odd typos (of equations) and mis-calculations.

I am an FE teacher, rather than student, but find this book aninvaluable resource. There is some explanation, but a major strength is the number of worked examples, throughout the text, followed by self assessment questions. I use these with my students constantly, and even myself learning new things like Boolean algebra, which I now have to teach!

Me as a first year student of Engineering Degree Program studying in London found this book extremely useful and applicable. The book is written in a way that the reader can actually feel that s/he is understanding the Maths and becoming an expert in Maths slowly slowly (if especially you don't have so many ideas about Maths) which builds up some kind of psychological confidence in himself/herself. John Bird starts to explain the Maths from the basics and gradually builds up which encourages student to keep studying the book rather than giving up. I personally found this book addictive due to the style and gradully changing hardness level. The book is also split into different parts such as calculus, algebra, mensuration, statistics which I beleive is great. Probably the best thing about this book is that all the exercise questions are similar to the ones shown and explained in the book. So I definitely suggest the reader to follow the solutions of the problems without writing it down then when it comes to the exercises definitely I suggest you to ATTEMPT and SOLVE the problems on a piece of paper. If you can't I can ensure you that you will see the similer problem already solved in the book just go back and have a look at it and follow the same steps. John Bird has very very useful books such as Basic Engineering Mathematics, Technician Mathematics 1,2,3,4/5 series (which are full of Mathematics Applications in Engineering), Electrical Circuit Theory and Technology (a great thick giant book which gives all the essentials of Electrical Principles). Also this book is not as expensive as other books such as Engineering Mathematics by K.A. Stroud, Mathematics for Engineers by Anthony Croft, Modern Engineering Mathematics by Gylen and so on. Great Investment Mr Engin Sicimogullari