This book is great to have around, it offers tons of solutions to integrals, series, functions, etc... this is a must have for every scientist or engineer, however there are a lot of numerical tables which are by now completely obsolete, for instance Bessel function values, most of those tables are easily and more accurately calculated by Matlab. What is really useful in this book are not the numerical but the analyitical solutions to many, many functions.<br><br>Event today with software like Mathematica this book will still be useful, specially in those cases in which the software just doesnt give you the correct or expected answer. Im an EE grad student, and this book by Abramowitz coupled with
  
  
Table of Integrals, Series, and Products, Eighth Edition







  
    have provided me with many useful analytic solutions to very difficult integrals and functions which appear in engineering, I highly recommend both books.