-Computer Experiments, using the computer as an instrument of “experimental mathematics” for exploration and research. These are mostly open-ended experiments, demonstrating the use of computers in experimentally finding results, which may be provable afterward or may be valuable heuristic qualitative guidelines to the engineer, in particular in complicated problems.

-More on modeling and selecting methods, tasks that usually cannot be automated.

-Many sections were rewritten in a more detailed fashion, to make it a simpler book. This also resulted in a better balance between theory and applications.

-Student Solutions Manual and Study Guide enlarged, upon explicit requests of the users. This manual contains worked-out solutions to carefully selected odd-numbered problems as well as general comments and hints on studying the text and working further problems.

-WileyPLUS, provides online algorithmically generated homework, ebook, and course management features that cannot be not found with any other engineering mathematics text.