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Good as a basic textbook and a source of solve problems
This book is intended to assist upper level undergraduate and graduate students in their understanding of differential geometry, which is the study of geometry using calculus.Usually students study differential geometry in reference to its use in relativity. I personally have a rather oddball application for the subject - modeling of curved geometry for computer graphics applications. The fundamental concepts are presented for curves and surfaces in three-dimensional Euclidean space to add to the intuitive nature of the material.
Useful supplement and/or stand-alone text
Differential geometry and Tensor Calculus go hand in hand.If you're taking a course in differential geometry, you should have a copy of this book AND the Schaum's outline on Tensor Calculus. In it, you will find a concise, clear review of the theory, followed immediately by many problems with detailed solutions. For the physicist out there who needs to learn tensor calculus, I suggest you compliment your studies with this book.
Differential Geometry - A Schaum's Outline Series
As with all of the Schaum's Outline Series, this book is particularly useful if the readers intent is to gain a working knowledge of the subject. The subject of Differential Geometry is no exception. Dr. Lipschultz hasdone an excellent job of communicating the essential aspects ofdifferential geometry to the reader. The book assumes a fairly low level ofmathematical ability having calculus as the primary prerequisite. From thishumble beginning, Dr. Lipschultz takes the reader through the necessarydiscussions of vector functions, curvature, fundamental forms, and tensoranalysis. Given the theoretical nature of the subject,Dr. Lipschultz hasincluded most of the theorems and associated proofs necessary for a generalunderstanding of the subject. However, this book is not a substitute for aserious study of differential geometry. In addition most of the problemsare limited to two dimensional surfaces and this reader would have enjoyeda more adventurous investigation of higher dimensional spaces. Like allSchaum's series, the text is chock full of problems and their solution. Irecommend this book for anyone interested in quickly gaining a workingknowledge of the subject. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Geometry - Differential    2. Mathematics    3. Science/Mathematics    4. Study Guides    5. Topology - General    6. Differential & Riemannian geometry    7. Mathematics / Geometry / General   

Subjects:  1. Applied    2. Education    3. Engineering - General    4. Mathematical Physics    5. Mathematics    6. Study Guides    7. Teaching Methods & Materials - Mathematics    8. Mathematics for scientists & engineers    9. Science / Mathematical Physics   

Reviews (4)

We Use It In Class
We use this book as core material in our Beginning Spanish class.Our instructor supplements the book as need be, but in general it provides enough material, as do the follow-on books in the series, to give our students an excellent introduction and capacity in the language.

I had to buy it
I the book is o.k. as it was required for my class.There is no attempt to instruct in grammer or increase the understanding of how to use the language.Also it is geared towards using the language in Spain.If ,,, that is what you want it is o.k.Some of the illustrationsare hard to read without a magnifying glass. As a part of a comprehensive course in spanish it is o.k.but you are not going to learn how to make converstion spontaniouslywith this book.

Good for a short class to get ready for a trip
This book is not for someone trying to teach themself Spanish from the beginning.Gives no grammar explanations.It is a good book to have a short class with an experienced teacher who can explain the grammar that goes along with it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Conversation and phrase books    2. English    3. Foreign Language Study    4. Language    5. Spanish    6. Spanish language    7. Study Guides    8. Foreign Language Study / Spanish    9. Language teaching & learning material & coursework    10. Modern languages (ie other than English)   

Subjects:  1. Dynamics    2. Engineering Mechanics    3. Mechanics - Dynamics - General    4. Mechanics - General    5. Mechanics - Statics    6. Mechanics, Applied    7. Problems, exercises, etc    8. Science    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Study Guides    11. Vector analysis    12. Mechanical engineering    13. Science / Mechanics   

Subjects:  1. Medical / Nursing    2. Medical History & Records    3. Practice Management & Reimbursement    4. Study Aids    5. Study Guides    6. Test Preparation & Review    7. Medical / Administration    8. Study & learning skills   

Reviews (8)

Great Review Book
Compared to the NMS Q/A book, I believe the Kaplan Qbook is the most similar to the format and content of Step 3.Sure, the questions are long and the book is heavy and thick, but the explanations are thorough.It also breaks up the question into subspecialties.With Crush Step 3, this will be an adequate review book for step 3.

Kaplan Medical USMLE Step 3 Book Review:0(
I used this book as preparation for the USMLE step III and found that it covered the material in excessive detail, far more than what was reflected on the actual exam.It was so "specific" that I got lost in the minuitia.It requires you to know much more than is required, which hurt me in the end.The CCS portion and dermatology sections were not well represented.I did poorly on these portions of the exam and would recommend an additional text or interactive CD for those components of the exam.Take the CCS section very seriously, for it is a whopping 20% of your score which is very important!
helpful
I thought that this was extremely helpful.I used this with Secrets and aced the test. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Professional - General    3. Study Guides    4. Test Preparation & Review    5. Medical / General   

Reviews (2)

Advance and Simple!!
like other books of SHIM & SIEGEL this book is also very simple for following althoug it is an advance book in the managerial accounting area.

Missing table Of Contents
Could you possibly include the table of contents in this page? (Sorry to have to include this request under this section but there doesn't appear to be any place to get comments back to Amazon). ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Managerial    2. Business & Economics    3. Business/Economics    4. Curricula    5. Managerial accounting    6. Problems, exercises, etc    7. Study Guides    8. Business & Economics / Accounting / Management    9. Management accounting   

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Good Resource for SPHR exam
I found this to be a very typical study guide - matching vocabulary, true/false, multiple choice, and a couple fill-in answers.It was useful as a review to the text to make sure I knew what the concepts were, but the SPHR exam goes beyond knowing the concepts to being able to combine and apply them.I would recommend this in conjunction with the text for a good review, but you will need to have a much more indepth understanding of the concepts to pass the exam.

A Complimentary Must Have
The Study Guide is the perfect companion to the Human Resources Management Tenth Edition textbook.The Study Guide provides excellent review questions in the form of True/False, Multiple Choice, Matching, Essay and Fill-ins.At the end of each question, the corresponding page number of the textbook is provided for quick reference/review.The study guide will test your ability to retain information.I highly recommend it, especially for those that are preparing for the PHR/SPHR exams. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. General    5. Human Resources & Personnel Management    6. Study Guides    7. Business & Economics / Human Resources & Personnel Management    8. Personnel & human resources management   

Reviews (1)

A wonderfully practical program
Here is a great program you can put to work in just a few weeks. I was very impressed with how practical a program this was. Dodge gives speech pathologists something they can really use in the schools. 5 stars forcreativity! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Audiology & Speech Pathology    2. Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy    3. Speech    4. Study Aids    5. Study Guides    6. Language Arts & Disciplines / Speech    7. Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech)    8. Study & learning skills    9. Study guides, home study & revision notes   

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Clear, simple theory
This book explains the theory of differential and some integral calculus.There are worked problems, but I mostly ignored them in favor of the raw concept discussion.Read more

Subjects:  1. Calculus    2. Mathematics    3. Outlines, syllabi, etc    4. Problems, exercises, etc    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Study & Teaching    7. Study Guides    8. Calculus & mathematical analysis    9. Mathematics / Calculus   

Reviews (7)

Better than elementary
This book, I must say, is very good companion for any high school or middle school students who want to master the subject. I like this intermediate algebra better than the elementary one--simply more interesting. But to well prepare yourself for college math/algebra, you only need this book: the most useful problem or resource book that I have ever read in English :
Very Happy
I purchased this book to makea quick review of Math and help my son. I am so happy that I will buy the entire collection from elementary Algebra to Calculus includingDifferencial equations, Geometry and Trigonometry. Great help for those who need a solid foundation in Math. You can't go wrong with Schaum's Outline.

A highly useful supplement
If you're returning to college after a while and feel rusty, you should have a copy of this book.In it, you will find a concise, clear review of the theory, followed immediately by many problems with detailed solutions.Nothing is worse than in a math class than getting hung up on some idea during the semester.You will fall behind and probably not catch up.Try to work the problems, though, before looking at the answers.
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Subjects:  1. Algebra    2. Algebra - General    3. Algebra - Intermediate    4. Mathematics    5. Outlines, syllabi, etc    6. Problems, exercises, etc    7. Study Guides    8. Mathematics / Algebra / General   

Subjects:  1. Differential Equations    2. Study Aids    3. Study And Teaching Of Specific Subjects    4. Study Guides    5. Mathematics / Differential Equations   

Reviews (5)

a great book, but you need another text book with it.
This is one of my favorite books. Once you have the basic theory behind you this book shows you the techniques to quickly simplify control blocks ( You want to be able to solve questions more than one way to check yourself) . I just keep this book handy and have alots of added notes for specific control models.It helps round out other books in the end i found this book by itself with some photo copies from other texts was enough for me. There are alot good text books for control theory. I prefer ones with matlab / simulink exercises.
Good Remainder for The Basic Concept
I am a student of Graduate School, and my major is Adaptive Control. I consider this book very good book for me, especially because it summarizes and covers most of the basic concept and method about control engineering, which I sometimes forget. So, by having this book now, I can anytimefind and reread the part I have forgotten. Of course, it will be better if you also accompany this book with others books which explain more detil about control.

Excellent for Undgrad Course
I'm currently taking a Feedback Control Theory course at the undergrad level, and I think this book is an excellent exposition of classical control theory.Our text for the course is Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems, written by people from Stanford.Schaum's Outline actually has more *theory* than the textbook we are using.It eliminates all of the frills and pretty colored diagrams in favor of exposing everything an undergraduate would have trouble with.And for those people who think the emphasis is only on problem solving, this "Outline" has more mathematical proof than the book from Stanford I just mentioned!I highly recommend using this book to get off on the right foot in control systems, whether you are an engineer just learning the material or an undergraduate; it solidifies the foundations of the theory so that practical problems will come more easily.Also, it is a practical book as well. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Control theory    2. Engineering - Electrical & Electronic    3. Feedback control systems    4. Robotics    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Study Guides    7. Technology    8. Automatic control engineering    9. Technology / Engineering / Electrical   

Reviews (4)

Excellent book for beginners and pros
This is an excellent book. Very well written and with very explicit examples for a beginner or a pro.
Strength of Materials
I found the book to be very useful in that it summarizes my class textbook and offers many worked out example problems. I have since purchased Schaum's for my other classes and I find them equally useful

Well written book
I have already finished courses in strength of materials etc., and am using this book as a reference, instead of those voluminous handbooks. The book is very well written and William Nash has an excellent, straightforward way of putting forth the key points. The book has all theinformation you might need for a first course in strength of materials. Ialso use this book in conjunction with a finite element text to give me thetheoretical values for comparison. In summary, if you need a solid backupfor your textbook and a useful reference, you won't go wrong with this one. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Material Science    2. Nanostructures    3. Outlines, syllabi, etc    4. Problems, exercises, etc    5. Strength Of Materials    6. Study Aids    7. Study Guides    8. Materials science    9. Technology / Construction & Construction Trades   

Subjects:  1. SAT & PSAT    2. Study Aids    3. Study Guides    4. Test Prep    5. Workbooks    6. Examinations & assessment    7. Study Aids / SAT & PSAT (Scholastic Assessment Test & Preliminary Scholastic Assessment Test)   

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The only book of its kind!
This is an excellent supplement to most of the college level textbooks in C++ programming. Many authors of C++ textbooks aretaken up by the apparent need to illustrate complex object oriented concepts (lest Java be seen as the alpha and omega in object oriented languages)with long winded "case studies" or "programming projects" that seem contrived (see any book by Deitel for examples of such.)Some other authors think that their exercises and examples are places to showcase their ingenuity and possession of programming tricks (see Daniel Liang's "Displaying A Pyramid Of Numbers" in Chapter 3 of Introduction to JAVA Programming, Comprehensive Version, 5th Edition, as an example of such.) But what about simple exercises to see if you've mastered the basics of arrays, loops, and simple functions? Let's face it, it will be a couple of years before you'll be asked to work on the code for an ATM machine (Deitel), in the meantime buy this book and focus on the basics.

Gut strukturiert, viel Info zu einem sehr guten Preis
Dieses outlet bietet eine sehr gute Zusammenfassung der meissten Aspekte von C++. Es ist kein Anf�ngertutorial und auch kein Referenzbuch, eignet sich aber sehr gut zum Nachschlagen.
Schaum's Outline of Programming with C++
Very informative introduction to C++. I was new to C++ and most textbooks are hard to understand and hence requires a teacher toexplain everything. I started reading it halfway through the course and got a C+ when I was expecting an F. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. C (Programming Language)    2. C++ (Computer program language    3. C++ (Computer program language)    4. Computer Programming Management    5. Computers    6. Computers - Languages / Programming    7. Italian    8. Programming - General    9. Programming Languages - C++    10. Study Guides    11. C & Visual C    12. Computers / Programming Languages / C++   

Features

• Abridged
• Audiobook

Reviews (3)

Excellent and Entertaining Review of Important Information!
This set of diskettes is a wonderful introduction or review of the necessary information presented on standardized tests, such as the ACT, SAT, GRE, GMAT or the LSAT. I found these, Word Smart disks, most beneficial for reviewing terms introduced in high school, long forgotten and rarely used, as well as a way to improve my vocabulary.
Very good CD
The authors have done a very good job in integrating the words in real-life context.

You can't help but learn something
When I first got this audio book, I was a little nervous that it was going to be overwhelming and littered with obscure, little-used words. What a surprise to find a plethora of words I thought I already knew plus a prodigious amount of words I didn't--and always wondered what they meant! If you're looking for something that's easy to digest, learn, and recall later, buy this book. You won't be disappointed and you can't help but learn something new. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Audio Adult: Language    2. Language Arts & Disciplines    3. Study Guides    4. Unabridged Audio - Misc.Nonfiction    5. Vocabulary    6. Language Arts & Disciplines / Vocabulary   

Reviews (4)

Good book
Its a good book to work problems in congunction with a regular text book. The practical side is limited for engineering purposes. Smithor Fischer is a better book.
Clear concise outline of optics
This Schaum's outline is better than the expensive textbook by the same author on the same subject in many ways, and in my opinion stands alone as a guide on optics. It gets to the meat of optics via solving problems that range from simple to difficult, which is particularly attractive to engineers learning or reviewing this subject. To me, the only chapters that seemed a bit confusing were the first two on wave motion and on electromagnetic waves and photons. For that material you may need to consult another source. From that point onward, however, the outline couldn't be any better. The outline even has a chapter that introduces Fourier optics. This outline would make an excellent review or supplement for someone taking a course in Photonics that uses Saleh's "Fundamentals of Photonics". That textbook has virtually no solved problems in it whatsoever, and the first third of the book follows the material covered in this outline nicely.

Great stand-alone text and/or supplement
My students tell me this Schaum's made a positive difference in their understanding.Thus, if you're taking a course in intermediate optics, you should have a copy of this book. In it, you will find a concise, clear review of the theory, followed immediately by many problems with detailed solutions.
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Subjects:  1. Electronics - General    2. Optics    3. Physics    4. Problems, exercises, etc    5. Science    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Study Guides    8. Optometry / opticians    9. Science / Physics   

Subjects:  1. Study Aids    2. Study Guides    3. Tests    4. Study Aids / Study Guides   

Reviews (5)

Lacks current and expanded problems:
I recently purchased this book for a discrete math class I was attending at UMD. This was no help in practicing iteration, induction, or summation. The only good point about this book is that it gives plenty of examples for visuals (i.e. set theory, graphs, and trees).

Reviews the field and Enforces problem solving abilities
Computer science has been the primary catalyst transforming the status of this once-obscure field of discrete mathematics into state-of-the-art information, and required knowledge. Switching circuits, programming languages, expert systems and their underlying logic, to name but a few computer-related topics, each rely upon the results from this field as a foundation. There is a proliferation of books on graph theory, discrete mathematics, and even set theory and mathematical logic, for this reason. It's helpful!
The problems in this book were arranged the waythat leads readers understand simple conceptsfirst, then bring you to problems and applications.In addtion, my professor Dr. Mott (he wrote one of the topselling discrete book) recommandedthis book to me as well. I found itVERY helpful. Read more

Subjects:  1. Calculus    2. Discrete Mathematics    3. Discrete Mathematics (Computer Science)    4. Education    5. General    6. Mathematics    7. Problems, exercises, etc    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Study Guides    10. Mathematical foundations    11. Mathematics / Discrete Mathematics