The understanding comes with this book all by itself by doing

All topics of mathematics that users really need in the first semester, explained in a comprehensible way using concrete procedures

Digestible Bites: Each chapter for a lecture double hour

With various hints for MATLAB

In the 2nd edition extended by a chapter on the solution of partial differential equations by means of integral transformations, by a section on the numerical solution of the wave equation as well as by several additional tasks.

Prof. Dr. Christian Karpfinger teaches at the Technical University of Munich; in 2004 he received the State Teaching Award of the Free State of Bavaria.