... chapter. They are carefully selected and should be considered an integral part of the learning process. In a vast area like mathematical methods in science and engineering, there is always room ... with interesting examples like the fringe effects of a parallel plate capacitor and fluid flow around an obstacle. We also discuss complex inte- grals, series, and analytic continuation along ... greatest minds like Bertrand Russell began to think that physics might have come to an end, that is, the existing laws of nature could in principle explain all physical phenom- ena. Actually,...