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菲利普·m·莫尔斯和赫尔曼Feshbach,麻省理工学院的物理学教授,发表了他们biblical-sized教科书“理论物理的方法”,麦格劳-希尔在1953年5月。在1978页,在两本书出版,它是一个令人生畏的双胞胎多美,仍应在阅读列表或每一个数学物理学家的书架。在这本书是什么材料?在最简洁的术语中,这本书是致力于研究相关的微分方程和边界条件,描述物理领域。十三章地址什么情况下需要使用,微分方程,和最常见的地址坐标系统转换的问题,例如,如何拉普拉斯方程的格林函数变换不同坐标系统下吗?在什么情况下可以将分离的解决方案?许多例子来说明这些问题。为什么这本书相关软件程序员?这本书是任何科学背景的一部分程序员可能需要在处理物理领域。这本书是写在个人电脑成为无处不在,然而它仍然是一个杰出的努力把求解微分方程的方法管理字段在一本书。 The book never received a second edition, however, it was reprinted to an outstanding standard by Feshbach Publishing since 2004, run by the children of Herman Feshbach. Their website is feshbachpublishing.com. The majority of this review is a mini-commentary of the book showing what is covered in a very terse fashion, which may be useful as a summary even for those who have already read the full text. I then give a brief analysis of the approach to mathematical physics taken by the book. Finally, I will discuss who will benefit from reading this magnificent treatise, nearly 60 years after it was first published.