Engineering mathematics : volume i

Banaphool is the pen name of the Bengali author, playwright and poet, Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay. Born in Manihari (or Purnia), Bihar, Mukhopadhyay began writing as a teenager and adopted the his pen name Banaphool (wild-flower in Bengali) to hide his work from his tutors. He is most noted for his short vignettes, often just one page long, but his body of work spanned sixty five years and included "thousands of poems, 586 short stories, 60 novels, 5 dramas, a number of one-act plays, an autobiography, and numerous essays. In addition to his literary works, Mukhopadhyay was also a physician, and practised medicine throughout his life. He died in 1979 and, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, India issued a postage stamp featuring his image.

Arunava Sinha is an Internet professional by day and a translator of classic and contemporary Bengali fiction by night. His translation of Sankar’s Chowringhee won the 2007 Crossword–Vodafone award for Best Translation. His other translations include Buddhadeva Bose’s My Kind of Girl (2009). Born and brought up in Calcutta, he lives in New Delhi.

This book, now in its second edition, is designed for the first-year undergraduate students of all branches of engineering of the various Indian universities.

The book presents the concepts of matrices and differential calculus. It elaborates differential equations and multiple integrals along with complex integration and vectors. The text explains Green’s theorem, Stokes’ theorem and Gauss’s divergence theorem with their applications. It also deals with the solution of differential and integral equations using the Laplace transform, and explains concepts in three-dimensional geometry (sphere, cone and cylinder) as well as functions of several variables.

ISBN: 9788120341951
Author: Banaphool & Arunava Sinha
Published by: PHI Learning
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