Mathematical-tools

i would like to take a look at it

The book teaches the process to get from "I have a nebulous idea," to turn into "I have a set of steps to build my idea."
Buy it. Read it. Practice it.

Mr Lewis makes understanding modelling easy. Explains with amazing clarity similarity between seemingly different fields of engineering. Though you may have encountered all the material before his method of presenting gives you a better understanding of the subject.

The simplicity, the clarity and the deep understanding of the subject are the main description for this book. Thank you Mr. Lewis for this great book and I hope you write more books in applied engineering.

In this book Rudy Rucker provides a novel way of classifying mathematical thinking - as number, space, logic, infinity, and information. He uses many standard examples and some more unusual ones such as classifying numbers as small, medium, large and inconceivable. It provides a good introduction for the general reader of mathematics, especially on the mathematical frontier, with such concepts as transfinite numbers, Goedel's incompleteness theorem, and cellular automata theory. It does have some errors, such as calling "Every sex act is sacred", "Every sex act is evil" imply "Some evil acts are sacred"; is a valid logical argument; not so. Consider this interpretation: "Every irrational integer is irrational", "Every irrational integer is an integer"; hence "Some integers are irrational". But in general I would recommend this book to the general reader.

Page 32 gives a chart which shows the evolution of the strands of mathematics from ancient times until the present. This makes the book.

Really nice survey of important ideas underneath the application of mathematics to real world analysis and understanding. Actually started a company based on one of his "someone should write a progam that ..." statements.