Product DescriptionThe authors stress a more balanced approach, one that includes analytic, numeric, and graphical techniques. The book emphasizes modeling and qualitative theory throughout the course. It employs technology significantly and consistently, presents linear and nonlinear systems in parallel, and includes an introduction to discrete dynamical systems. This text grew out of the Boston University Differential Equations Project, funded in part by the National Science Foundation
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Rating: - Worst mathematics book EVER
The authors attempt to teach differential equations in paragraph form. They define jargon with more jargon and supplement it with variables that they either don't define or define in terms so ridiculously ambiguous that they are impossible to decipher into English.
Here is one example from page 6:
"The pair of equations
dP/dt = kP for all t, P(0)=Po
is called an initial-value problem. A solution to the initial value problem ... Read More
