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
expected to read up on those parts that you find difficult, or are not covered in enough detail in the
notes.
Niels Walet, Manchester, 2002