Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to Second Edition
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Dimensional analysis
- 3 Power series
- 4 Spherical and cylindrical coordinates
- 5 Gradient
- 6 Divergence of a vector field
- 7 Curl of a vector field
- 8 Theorem of Gauss
- 9 Theorem of Stokes
- 10 Laplacian
- 11 Conservation laws
- 12 Scale analysis
- 13 Linear algebra
- 14 Dirac delta function
- 15 Fourier analysis
- 16 Analytic functions
- 17 Complex integration
- 18 Green's functions: principles
- 19 Green's functions: examples
- 20 Normal modes
- 21 Potential theory
- 22 Cartesian tensors
- 23 Perturbation theory
- 24 Asymptotic evaluation of integrals
- 25 Variational calculus
- 26 Epilogue, on power and knowledge
- References
- Index
24 - Asymptotic evaluation of integrals
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to Second Edition
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Dimensional analysis
- 3 Power series
- 4 Spherical and cylindrical coordinates
- 5 Gradient
- 6 Divergence of a vector field
- 7 Curl of a vector field
- 8 Theorem of Gauss
- 9 Theorem of Stokes
- 10 Laplacian
- 11 Conservation laws
- 12 Scale analysis
- 13 Linear algebra
- 14 Dirac delta function
- 15 Fourier analysis
- 16 Analytic functions
- 17 Complex integration
- 18 Green's functions: principles
- 19 Green's functions: examples
- 20 Normal modes
- 21 Potential theory
- 22 Cartesian tensors
- 23 Perturbation theory
- 24 Asymptotic evaluation of integrals
- 25 Variational calculus
- 26 Epilogue, on power and knowledge
- References
- Index
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- A Guided Tour of Mathematical MethodsFor the Physical Sciences, pp. 437 - 460Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004