Differential Equations and Linear Algebra

by Charles Henry Edwards, David E. Penney, David Calvis

For courses in Differential Equations and Linear Algebra.

The right balance between concepts, visualisation, applications, and skills

Differential Equations and Linear Algebra provides the conceptual development and geometric visualisation of a modern differential equations and linear algebra course that is essential to science and engineering students. It balances traditional manual methods with the new, computer-based methods that illuminate qualitative phenomena - a comprehensive approach that makes accessible a wider range of more realistic applications.

The book combines core topics in elementary differential equations with concepts and methods of elementary linear algebra. It starts and ends with discussions of mathematical modeling of real-world phenomena, evident in figures, examples, problems, and applications throughout.

Genres: Textbooks, Reference, Mathematics

760 pages, Paperback

First published July 11, 2000

About the author

Charles Henry Edwards
AKA C. Henry Edwards and C.H. Edwards

Reviews

[soppers]

This sucked.
I crammed a bunch of this on the bathroom floor before my exam freshman year of college and it was also the first time I started experimenting with black eyeliner, so I was trying to figure out what the fuck dual space is, tearing up, came out of the bathroom with it smudged all over my face, "took" the exam, walked out and my buddy went "Oooh I like the goth look!" with 100% sincerity and I just said "Thanks." absentmindedly because my brain had just been melted down and recast inside of a Moron Mold (thanks for NOTHING Prof. Leslie!!!!) then I got home, looked in the mirror, and came face-to-face with Raccoon Sophia.
Horrifying.

[Patty]

I don't want to sound like too much of a bitter hater but this was perhaps the worst math textbook I've ever read. Definitely a victim of mathematician-speak "the proof is trivial" type shit with little context given.

[Carlos]

This book was simply one of the best math textbooks I've ever come across. It was quite straightforward and easy to understand both in terms of explanations and, refreshingly, in the homework problems it posed. It similarly used several worked-out example problems that allowed the student to really grasp the quite novel concepts it was putting across.

[Benjamin Plume]

Nothing to compare it to, but it was readable.

[Gerry Scheetz]

rented as part of Differential Equations class

Book was OK