Preface

This book is for people in technical fields, students and professionals alike. Its aim is to show the usefulness of Microsoft® Excel in solving a wide range of numerical problems. Excel does not compete with the major league symbolic mathematical environments such as Mathematica, Mathcad, Maple, and the like. Rather it complements them. Excel is more readily available and easier to learn.

The examples have been taken from a range of disciplines but require no specialized knowledge, so the reader is invited to try them all. Do not be put off by an exercise that is not in your area of interest. Each exercise is designed to introduce and explain an Excel feature. The two modeling chapters will help you learn how to develop worksheets for ...

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