<p>Do you know any good math reference book for an engineer?</p>
<p>Kreyszig's Advanced Engineering Mathematics.</p>
<p>^ Seconded.</p>
<p>I used that for a textbook in a course once. It has excellent breadth, touching on almost any topic an engineer might encounter, but you quickly realize there is little depth to any of the material. Don't expect a whole lot in terms of concepts, derivations, or wide varieties of examples.</p>
<p>Whether that's a good or bad thing, dunno. I guess if you're on a "need to know" basis with math, then this is a perfect book for you, since it'll bring you up to a "working knowledge" of nearly any engineering math subject fast.</p>
<p>But for anything in depth or needing more than a little rigor? Not.</p>
<p>edit: I guess I saved that textbook, intentionally or not, so you might say I approve of it in the reference sense.</p>
<p>I just keep whatever math books I have for my major/minor, and go to the library or internet when I need to look something up. One book won't have it all.</p>
<p>I didn't like Kreyszig's book at all. I used this book for my advance engineering math 2 class. Yes, the book has pretty much all the topics you can think of. However, the book not only has very few examples, but also the author jumps so many steps ahead in most of examples. Even if you get a student solution manual, it is useless, the manual only have solutions to 2 to 3 problems in a section.</p>
<p>Calculus Apostol is pretty good, hardcore but good.</p>