Ebook: Analytic functions and distributions in physics and engineering

The purpose of this book is to present in an informal and easily readable
style an introduction to those mathematical concepts and techniques involving
analytic functions and distributions that have found wide application in
theoretical physics and engineering in recent years.
Originally written with an industrial educational program in mind, it has
been my intention to present the material in a form suitable for students and
research workers whose interest is primarily in the application ofmathematical
theories rather than in these theories themselves. I have avoided therefore
abstract and involved mathematical arguments and have not attempted
to present the foundations ofthe concepts and techniques in their most general
form. Instead I have attempted to present an easily accessible introduction
on the mathematical level of most research papers concerned with the
applications of analytic functions and distributions to the solution of concrete
physical problems