M G Smith Laplace Transform Theory New University Mathematics Series Van Nostrand 1966 116 PP 35s Cloth Bound 18s Paperback

The document reviews three mathematics books: 'Laplace Transform Theory' by M. Smith, which provides a rigorous account of Laplace transforms and their applications; 'Integral Equations and their Applications, Volume I' by W. Pogorzelski, which covers classical and non-linear integral equations; and 'Connectivity in Graphs' by W. Tutte, focusing on a deep exploration of graph theory fundamentals. Each book is noted for its clarity and accessibility to students, with ample exercises and detailed discussions on their respective topics.

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180 BOOK REVIEWS

SMITH, M. c , Laplace Transform Theory. New University Mathematics Series (Van

Nostrand, 1966), 116 pp., 35s. (cloth bound), 18s. (paperback).
This book contains a short rigorous account of Laplace transform theory and
some of its applications. It is written in a lucid manner and should be easily accessible
to undergraduate mathematics and science students who have had elementary courses
in complex analysis and differential equations. There are ample exercises included to
test the student's mastery of the subject matter.
The Laplace transform is treated as a special case of a complex Fourier transform.
Both the uniqueness and inversion theorems are deduced from the Fourier integral
theorem, the proof of which is included in an appendix. There are four chapters
discussing the application of Laplace transforms to ordinary linear differential
equations, partial differential equations, linear integral equations, and difference
equations. The final chapter discusses briefly the asymptotic relations existing
between a function and its Laplace transform. M. LOWENGRUB

POGORZELSKI, w., Integral Equations and their Applications, Volume I, translated

from the Polish by J. J. Schorr-Con, A. Kacner and Z. Olesiak (Pergamon Press,
1966), xiii+714pp., 120s.
This book is the first volume of a translation made from the original Polish edition
published between 1953 and 1960. Part I is an account of the classical theory of
Fredholm and Volterra equations. Most of the material is standard and is available
in several other texts. The author's treatment is however detailed and full, and can
be recommended for an undergraduate course on integral equations. Part II deals
with systems of linear integral equations, non-linear integral equations and the
applications of integral equations in the theory of elliptic, hyperbolic and parabolic
partial differential equations. A short appendix on Schauder's Fixed Point Theorem
by R. Sikorski is included. This part deals with much less readily accessible material
than the other parts. Part III deals with singular integral equations and contains
chapters on the properties of Cauchy type integrals, the Hilbert and Riemann
boundary value problems, linear singular integral equations together with some
applications, non-linear singular integral equations for contours and discontinuous
boundary value problems in the theory of analytic functions. Much of the material
is however available elsewhere notably in the books by Muskhelishvili and Gakhov.
The book is a useful addition to the literature on integral equations in that it
gives in one volume a comprehensive account of linear and non-linear integral
equations including singular ones and their applications. w. D. COLLINS

TUTTE, w. T., Connectivity in Graphs (Toronto University Press; London: Oxford

University Press), 145 pp., 42s.
The author's preface states: " Graph theory is now too extensive a subject for
adequate presentation in a book of this size. Faced with the alternatives of writing
a shallow survey of the greater part of graph theory or of giving a reasonably deep
account of a small part, I have chosen the latter. I have written indeed as though
the present book were to be the first section of a three-volume work."
The only prerequisites for understanding this book are a knowledge of elementary
set theory and possibly a certain minimum of mathematical maturity. Only finite
undirected graphs are considered. Self-contained treatises on graph theory usually
need a fair amount of introductory material to describe the basic concepts required:
this is done mainly in Chapters 1-4 and 6. Chapter 5 deals with Euler paths. Chapter
7 discusses the automorphism group of a graph, and in particular certain matters
concerning graphs which " look the same from every vertex ", i.e. in which any
vertex can be mapped into any other by an automorphism of the graph. Chapter 8