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AT the joint session of Sections A (Mathematics) and G (Engineering) of the British Association meeting, held last September, it was stated in a discussion on "Applicable Mathematics" that "Mathematics as an integral part of engineering science ovolyed to satisfy the demands of the science, and should be used by the engineer as one of the tools of his trade" ; and later in the discussion the point emerged that "the engineer's main difficulty lies in the translation of his engineering problem into mathematical terms, and then, on finding a solution, in translating that solution into an engineering solution". Commenting upon this, a later speaker stressed the desirability of the enlightened teacher of mathematics being able to speak the engineer's language. There should be very little difficulty about this, for the modern trend of much mathematical literature is to produce books having a practical bias. Thus the old artificial barrier between academic mathematics and the more modern mathematics applied to the sciences is gradually being broken down.
Applied Differential Equations
By Prof. F. E. Relton. Pp. viii + 264. (London, Glasgow and Bombay: Blackie and Son, Ltd., 1948.) 20s. net.
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BROWN, F. Mathematics for the Engineer. Nature 163, 550 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163550a0
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