Thanks ! I think every book that worked for the lowest common denominator like myself should be pushed in school and highlighted. The book that was pushed in class for us was the most pathetic excuse for a book. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Modern-Engineering-Mathematics-Prof-... I really hate this book. Its the bible for "wall of text" syndrome. The thing that really made me angry is one of the author of this book was my prof ! I think such conflict of interest should be made a crime in classroom. This book is much better if you are interested in everything applied mathematics related (besides stats ) the author is dead but damn is this book timeless. Everything is explained in a twitter like way. every page is made up of 4 slides. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Engineering-Mathematics-K-Stroud/dp/...