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    <title>Introductory mathematics for earth scientists</title>
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    <namePart>Yang, Xin-She.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Dunedin</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2009</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <abstract>Any quantitative work in earth sciences requires mathematical analysis to a certain degree and many mathematical methods are essential to the modelling and analysis of the geological, geophysical and environmental processes widely studied in earth science.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>1. Preliminary Mathematics I -- 2. Preliminary Mathematics II -- 3. Binomial Theorem and Sequences -- 4. Trigonometry and Spherical Trigonometry -- 5. Complex Numbers -- 6. Differentiation -- 7. Integration -- 8. Fourier Transforms -- 9. Vectors -- 10. Matrix Algebra -- 11. Ordinary Differential Equations -- 12. Partial Differential Equations -- 13. Geostatistics -- 14. Numerical Methods -- A. Glossary -- B. Mathematical Formulae.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Xin-She Yang.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-210) and index.</note>
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    <topic>Earth sciences</topic>
    <topic>Mathematics</topic>
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