CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae, 32nd Edition (Advances in Applied Mathematics)

Just what I ordered

As a kid, I had an old copy of the 10th edition. I was particularly interested in the tables of squares and cubes, and used to search through those tables for patterns, such as 3543^3 = 44474744007. Today, though, anyone can get free copies of Perl, Python, or Pascal and generate many of these tables instantly. Much of it is available online, in places like MathWorld, Wikipedia, WolframAlpha, and the Wolfram Demonstrations Project.However, as a kid, I flipped through the available books, and this was one of the books with pictures. I didn't understand it, but I knew that these things had something to do with these pictures. When I hit cartesian coordinates in math class, I remembered the pictures, and then I was off and running to be a mathematician. There is much in this book to catch the eyes of a child. Same goes for earlier editions.Many of the online sources, such as the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, have a core sampling of material in the book.Beautifully bound (unlike the 30th edition). There are a few poor pictures, such as the Fano plane on page 171, and the knots on page 723. A page of famous graphs would have been helpful. Various useful sites like Wolfram Functions Site are not mentioned. Only one page is given to recreational math, and not a particularly useful page.Still, this is overall a useful book, and very flippable. Recommended.

This is a massive book of reference for the beginner and the expert in the realm of Mathematics. In a time when Logarithms are unknown to the average High School student, and the intricacies of the slide rule have disappeared with the ability to estimate the answers to maths problems, this purchase has stirred the heart of a 70 year old mathematics junkie.From the formula for the Volume of a truncated cone, to Euclidean Geometrical Theorems, they are all there. It is a work of beauty, and rare wonder. My High School Pure Maths Teacher all those years ago drummed much of this into an unwilling head. The pursuit of the fairer sex ensured much of his drumming was lost in the heat of the opening stanzas of the Viet Nam War. My discovery and experience of the beauty of mathematical communication has been made complete with this book.Ah! Control Theory,Risk Analysis and Decision Rules have with age replaced the ache of the 18 year old, with the wiser and slower head of the 70 year old. The beauty remains in both, but that of the discoveries I have made in this book will stay with me now the former distractions of youth have passed.And then if your calculator breaks on the morning of the great examination, maybe then youth will rediscover.,...

Bought this to replace my 35+ year-old table from my undergraduate years (finally fell apart at the seams) and so far, CRC continues to be the best at putting together these types of compendiums (I still use the old "rubber" book (as my preceptor in grad school called it) (he confused the heck out of me until I remembered CRC means Chemical Rubber Company) daily), even though for some of them they now have DVD versions.

In retrospect, I should have found a copy of this book to page through before buying it. In earlier versions of this volume (e.g. 27th ed.), there were tables, many of them, showing numerical values of functions. Instead of providing such tables (I was disappointed to find a lack of logarithms) of function values, the presumption now appears to be you will look that sort of thing up on a computer. But what if you want to verify what a computer shows (or you don't have access to one) for a given function? Or what if you want to look at sections of a table to make quick comparisons. Most of the time, you can't do it with this edition of the book. This is more of a mathematical encyclopaedia, and there are better ones to be had. The layout of the pages is attractive, as others have mentioned.

I still have my copy of a CRC Math Tables that I used in college. I used them in my classroom in the early days of my teaching carreer for their more detailed tables. For example: Trig tables to the nearest minute. Of course with today's calculator tech a lot of what I used this book for has become redundant, but it is a wonderful source for anyone studying mathematics. I purchased this one for my daughter's high school graduation as she is going to be studying math in college.

I've had a copy of this book's predecessor (14th Edition) since the mid 1960s. As a student, as a working engineer, and as a fan of math puzzles, I have often opened the book. The new edition doesn't have the extensive tables the old edition had because such tables can be easily generated as needed. However, I'm still keeping the old edition. The editors and content have changed over the years, but any edition would prove useful. I highly recommend it.

Excellent book. I get a look of use out of it.

I got what I expected.