This book reflects the new excitement in Elementary Differential Equations as the availability of specialized scientific computing environments and software systems continues to reshape the role and applications of the discipline. The new approach found in the Second Edition employs tools like Maple, Mathematica, and MATLAB to shift in emphasis from traditional manual methods to new computer-based methods that open a wider range of realistic applications. Coverage begins and ends with discussions of mathematical modeling of real-world phenomena, with a fresh new computational flavor evident in figures, examples, problems, and projects throughout the text.
stopped updating but i read all the sections on the syllabus! not a fun class maybe cool if i was into physical engineering but a fella like me only cares about 1s and 0s (no i will not acknowledge circuit modeling). i cant wait to give this book to dave so he can tell me how freaking easy it is and how dumb i am. i love that kid im so excited to see him on friday😁 good book tho very thorough. apparently this book has family lore dr tran said hes been teaching from this book for like 20 sum years?? i can see why tho i like the modeling sections and how it teaches you how you use my favorite guilty pleasure language (matlab😋) to model the equations
As a math textbook it was pretty clear. I would have liked more examples and there were some concepts that I had to look up online to understand. But overall, made differential equations pretty doable.
Fallen way behind on the surge of textbooks I've been rereading over the last two weeks. I had the custom UIUC edition for this one, which was marred by missing sections. While the general examples and problems were pretty strong in the text, I found the applications sections to be a bit too unfocused (everything from statistics to biology to physics appeared) for learning. The overuse of boldfaced terms and the lack of too many boxed procedures or formulae made the book good to learn from, but not really useful as a reference later.