Table of Integrals, Series, and Products

Greatest for College & Science/Engineering. I still have an older volume that helped me in college 60 years ago. It came in handy. However, the latest edition is greatly enhanced. I may supply one of these to my grandchildren if they go into something technical. Again, I say that this latest edition is an order of magnitude superior!!

This is a must book to have for physicists, engineers,etc. I used to have an old version. I highly recommended it.

This book pretty much has anything you could need. I spent an entire afternoon looking up integrals, series, functions and so forth. It quite fantastic. It is the only book that I keep on my desk and not in the bookshelf.

If you call yourself a mathematician this is a must have in your library

It is very hard to say a whole a lot about a reference book like this. This is not something you open up and read from the first page to the end. You refer to it when you need to for your computations. I must have referred to it by about two dozen times in the past months, especially for 'definite integrals'. Often I found what I needed. On a couple of occasions, I could not. Overall, I am reasonably happy with it. It should be in the library of every scientist and engineer.

Very Good!!!

More than thirty years ago, an eminent theoretical physicist told me that Gradshteyn and Ryzhik was his preferred handbook of critical mathematical information. I bought my own copy and found it to be incomparable and irreplaceable. I'm thrilled that Dan Zwillinger is doing great work to keep this resource alive and current.

The 3 stars reflect a split rating between what's there (great!) -- and what used to be there ("room for improvement").This book is indispensible for any self-respecting Theorist or Mathematician: it's well-organised, time-proven, and has grown from just an integral table into an indispensible resource of a wealth of information. If the integral or special function property is not in here, you probably messed up the calculation. Plenty of useful information was added (about 20 pages): more parameter ranges, more integrals, plus corrections of typos. So I give a 5-star rating for the content that is in the book and for its sturdy binding which allows it to withstand attacks of frustrations and grow in years of service.But 1 star rating for the new, 8th edition relative to the older ones. That's pretty harsh, so: Why? First, the editors chose to delete chapters 11 (Algebraic Inequalities), 13-16 (Matrices and Related Results, Determinants, Norms, Ordinary Differential Equations) and 18 (Z-Transform) -- altogether removing some 70 pages of information which has been there (and has been expanded upon) since at least the 5th edition (1996; I did not check for earlier ones). Some remaining Chapters are renumbered: old 12 to 11, old 17 to 12. That mans the reference numbers of some entries have changed, for the first time since at least the 5th edition. Granted, the book is called "Table of Integrals, Series, Products", so chapters on Matrices may not appear a natural content. That is the argument the editors give in the Preface, in one sentence, and without specifying what was removed. But that viewpoint is somewhat narrow: The book contains definitions and relations of Special Functions -- which are neither integrals, nor series, nor products. Indeed, that confinement of the title had already been broken in the very first, Russian edition. This is no more a compendium of All Things Mathematics: You need another book (most people will choose the NIST Handbook).Second, the new version comes without the CD whih accompanied the hardcopy of the 7th edition. So if you do not want to carry around a heavy book all the time, you need to cough up another 60$ for the Kindle version, on top of what you just bought. Yes, I am that old-fashioned guy who usually find information more quickly in the hardcopy, but wants an electronic version handy for travel.So, this is still an excellent book, but would the editors please return to the more encompassing ideas of the 7th edition -- and add at least a free .pdf to the hardcopy? NIST can do that; why not Gradshteyn/Ryzhik?