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Differential Equations with Boundary Value Problems
This text offers a clear and concise writing style that is student oriented, combining thorough explanations, an accurate mathematical presentation, and well defined terms.
704 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1986
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March 17, 2016
This book was seriously lacking.
It would not explain why one did anything, and just show a proof. Then it would only use the most trivial example to show how to do something, sometimes using the same equation over and over again for different methods of solving problems. Sometimes the examples would skip steps making them hard to follow. Then it would constantly refer back to things in earlier chapters rather than talk about them again. Given that this book costs $150, I think they could have afforded to use a few more pages to explain why they where even do what they where doing, and to not have been so lazy with their examples.
To compound this situation, the teacher I had lacked the ability to teach anything, so I had to learn everything on my own. So having a book that was at least useful would have been a help.
It would not explain why one did anything, and just show a proof. Then it would only use the most trivial example to show how to do something, sometimes using the same equation over and over again for different methods of solving problems. Sometimes the examples would skip steps making them hard to follow. Then it would constantly refer back to things in earlier chapters rather than talk about them again. Given that this book costs $150, I think they could have afforded to use a few more pages to explain why they where even do what they where doing, and to not have been so lazy with their examples.
To compound this situation, the teacher I had lacked the ability to teach anything, so I had to learn everything on my own. So having a book that was at least useful would have been a help.
April 28, 2021
It was not entirely simple to follow. When you reach series which is needed for solutions around singular points and ordinary points its difficult to follow unless you fully know series which the review does not entirely explain the more complex problems. Yet, not too bad overall.
May 16, 2018
Good for ODE, lots of examples and proofs of problem solving techniques. Very hand-wavy when it came to the PDE's. I would recommend for use in an ODE course but would suggest supplemental reading if taking a PDE course.
February 27, 2019
I want to read this
February 11, 2020
I'm a big fan of knowledge but...oof
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June 8, 2020good
January 25, 2021
Nice book 👌
December 20, 2024
Love her. Best book ever.
December 29, 2025
This made me cry.
June 28, 2023
Una genial y muy amena introducción a las ecuaciones diferenciales, muy bueno para cualquier estudiante de Ingeniería
November 6, 2019
Las ecuaciones en el dominio del tiempo o en el dominio de la frecuencia, las transformadas de Laplace dejaron de ser un misterio tras la lectura de esta hermosa obra. Es indispensable para analizar situaciones en el mundo de la ingeniería como calcular el desarrollo de bacterias en determinado tiempo, analizar el comportamiento de una señal eléctrica o la velocidad a la que gira un rollo de papel.
November 26, 2012
I absolutely love this book. I'm in graduate-level PDEs right now and I still use this book as a reference. It contains examples for just about every type of problem. It offers sufficient explanation. It even tells you (gasp!) when you can use what method. It has everything by graduate school books are missing.
January 27, 2011
Excellent book with ample questions and exercises to practice. This book really helped me understand differential equations and I think for any student of the subject this will be an excellent guide.
August 25, 2012
An overall good text book, I don't have much to say about it. I feel it covered the topics well and could have been better through more examples perhaps, but all around good.
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December 8, 2013If it is Free Service For Students then it is highly appreciable....Well done....otherwise kindly make it free for students..!!
February 4, 2014
Great info.. but i think it needs to be more specific.! and a lot more examples.
May 23, 2014
i want to read
March 8, 2015
goooooooooooooooooooood
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August 9, 2015its fine
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August 13, 2015sdfcsdfcsd
April 14, 2016
Good enough text for an introduction to ODE.
June 14, 2016
A good introduction to the basics an engineer should know
May 4, 2022
A dependable textbook on ordinary differential equations. This was my textbook for that class. Its balance between rigor and student-friendliness was most welcome.
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May 5, 2015nill
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May 24, 2015
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June 15, 2015best book
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February 12, 2018good
March 6, 2018
This book is very nice with basics. I would recommend it to my fellows.
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