This handbook is unusual in that it combines in a single volume formulas and tables from both elementary and advanced mathematics. For example, topics treated range from those in algebra, geometry, trigonometry, analytic geometry and calculus to Fourier series, Laplace and Fourier transforms, Bessel and Legendre functions and many other advanced special functions. Such topics are needed by both students and research workers in the fields of engineering, physics, mathematics and other sciences.
As far as I'm concerned, this is my bible. I know I'm supposed to have all the integration memorized, but I don't. My brain protests when I have to do integration. And when Mrs. Spiegel & Lau have nicely compiled all of the work of Laplace, Fourier, the Bernoullis, Euler, Taylor and all of the other dead mathematicians whose memories I, and thousands like me, hate, why not use it?
On second thought, I'm buying another one to leave at work.