Here you find the lecture notes for
the first semester of the course “Mathematics for
Physicsists”. These notes are terse, but should cover
more-or-less what has been said in class. You can use them as a
guide to the material you are expected to be able to deal with,
and we give ample reference to the two textbooks (Lambourne and
Tinker, “Basic Mathematics for the Physical
Sciences”, denoted as 1.xxx, and Tinker and Lambourne,
“Further Mathematics for the Physical Sciences”,
denoted as 2.xxxx). You’ll notice that we jump through
those books in a rather random order, but your are
expectedto read up on those parts
that you find difficult, or are not covered in
enough detail in the notes.
Niels Walet, Manchester, 2002