Matrices for Engineers

International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education, Jan 2004 by Barnes, Mike

Allan D. Kraus, Matrices for Engineers, Oxford University Press, 2002, 272 pp., £19.99.

The use of matrices and their manipulation are important mathematical tools in much of modern engineering. Allan Kraus has aimed this book solidly at students and those engineers wishing to revise their knowledge of these tools. The style used makes it suitable for self-study. Topics are presented in an uncluttered style, with an emphasis on building competence in matrix methods, rather than showing formalised proofs of the methods themselves. Plenty of numerical examples are given throughout. The level of the text is by necessity introductory, and the book takes the reader as far as Eigenvalues and the Cayley-Hamilton theorem. The book is a very good core or support text for undergraduate courses on matrices and can be recommended to graduate students for self-study.

Mike Barnes UMIST