The Foreword for the Second edition of the book «Mathcad 7 Pro for
Students and Engineers»
This is a two-way book. On the one hand,
this is a revised, remade, and largely supplemented edition of my first Mathcad
book (see Foreword to it). On the other hand, this book may be treated as a new
edition describing the most up-to-date Mathcad software, Mathcad 7 Pro by
MathSoft, Inc. In any case I hope, that this book, just like the previous one,
will be accepted by my readers.
There are seven comments.
1. I did my best to correct
errors and misprints found in the first edition of the book. I wish to
acknowledge the help of known and unknown colleagues.
2. I participated in testing the
beta-version of Mathcad Pro 7.0 (as an official beta-tester). This
participation provided me with better knowledge of MathSoft, Inc. and gave me a
chance to «play» in detail with the new stuff introduced in Mathcad 7 Pro.
3. Attention is also given to
the previous version ¾ Mathcad PLUS 6.0, because Mathcad Pro
7.0 requires up-to-date PC stuff (Windows 95 or Windows NT, 16 MB RAM etc.).
The book has been written for students and engineers; many of whom have no
access even to Windows 3.x. There is also a DOS-version of Mathcad, which
requires a personal computer with no hard drive and 1 MB RAM. Almost all
exercises included in the book (excluding studies 6 and 7) also work with the
DOS-version of Mathcad.
4. I have been actively engaged
in the establishing of a «world resolution» concept with Mathcad.
5. This edition is the manual.
Therefore, some difficulties encountered by the students studying Mathcad with
the previous edition were eliminated during the revision process.
6. In parallel with the writing
of this book I have prepared the CD-ROM including a training multimedia course
on Mathcad at Multimedia Technology Co. (8/2 Energeticheskaya, Moscow, 111116,
Russia; tel. 095-362-7486; e-mail mmt@glas.apc.org). I hope that the book and
the CD-ROM will be released at the same time and supplement each other.
7. All comments and wishes
regarding the book will be acknowledged by surface mail (V. Ochkov, TWT
Department, Moscow Power Institute, 14 Krasnokazarmennaya, Moscow, 111250,
Russia) or e-mail (ochkov@twt.mpei.ac.ru).
November
1997