
Closing remarks
Hopefully the engineers reading this book find its theoretical foundation clear
and concise, and the analytic and computational examples enlightening. The
focus of the applications on mechanical engineering reflects only the author’s
personal expertise and is not meant to imply any restriction of applicability
to other engineering disciplines.
The book was designed to be a self-contained coverage of the topic specifi-
cally addressed to the practicing engineer or engineering student reader. Dif-
ficult discussions about spaces of functions and rigorous proofs were avoided
to make the topic accessible with a standard engineering mathematics ...