Mathematical Mechanics: From Particle to Muscle by Ellis D. Cooper
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
The author is a retired high school teacher and Mathematical Mechanics is aimed at AP-level high school calculus students and their teachers to undergraduates and on to those graduated into research fields. It cannot be said that the author succeeded entirely in reaching both such a wide audience and covering such a constellation of topics for all of them. However, in being so boundless Cooper writes in a personal, wandering forward fashion that brings to mind a notebook, a type of scientific memoir. Asides, favorite quotations and improvements to proofs and theorems give the text that flavor and make it something that can be dipped into by the enthusiast at any point.
[See my full review at MAA Reviews.]
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