Applied Mathematics for Engineers, Fourth Edition
About the Author
Dr. Ramin Esfandiari is a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), where he has served as a
faculty member since 1989. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering,
and M.A. and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (Optimal Control), all from the
University of California, Santa Barbara.
He has authored several refereed research papers in high quality engineering
and scientific journals such as Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications,
Journal of Sound and Vibration, Optimal Control Applications and Methods, and
ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics.
Dr. Esfandiari is the author of Applied Mathematics for Engineers, fourth
edition (Atlantis, 2007), Matrix Analysis and Numerical Methods for Engineers (Atlantis, 2007),
and MATLAB Manual for Advanced Engineering Mathematics (Atlantis, 2007). He is one of the
select few contributing authors for the latest edition of the Mechanical Engineering
Handbook (Springer-Verlag, 2007), and co-author (with Dr. H.V. Vu) of
Dynamic Systems: Modeling and Analysis (McGraw-Hill, 1997).
Communication and Feedback
Please contact the author at esfandi@csulb.edu for questions and/or feedback regarding this book.