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This book is an excellent electromagnetics text. I use it in conjunction with Kraus, and the two together allow you to work almost any problem. -Tom McIntire

This is an extraordinary book to learn advanced electromagnetics from.Mr Balanis is Greek and it seems to me he uses the same method Socrates invented more than 2000 years ago which is the following as reported by Plato:truth (in this case electromagnetic theory)is present in everyone of us,what is left to the wise educator (teaching engineer)is to make everyone conscious of this inner truth using the most simple method of reducing the whole to its most elementary pieces and then using basic logic for reassemble it in a conscious way.This is exactly Mr Balanis winning strategy:he begins from the most basical things in electromagnetic theory like wave equations ,Poynting vectors and potential theory and then progresses in the clearest possible way to very advanced topics like scattering theory ,integral methods,Green functionts etc.etc.What is wonderful is that you are able to grasp the use of very advanced mathematical objects like special functions (Bessel,Hankel etc.etc.)with a reasonable effort(in many other text of comparable level they suppose you know more or less everything of this stuff!).In the end you are able to actually develop your analytical models for the analysis of real problems.The only improvement of this semi-perfect book would be to explain more of the included Fortran code.I give this book 5 stars! Grazie Mr Balanis!

Great book! I had to solve a 2D scattering problem using the Electric Field Integral Equation (EFIE). The book helped me to get quickly into the exact solution with its detailed and clear step-by-step derivations by reading just the relevant chapter. Its equations and cross references are very helpful. Most important, the examples enabled me to check out that the EFIE code I wrote (using its approximated expressions for the singularity points!) is error free.