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Schaum's Outline of Differential Equations, Fifth Edition is the go-to study guide for all students of science who need to learn or refresh their knowledge of differential equations. With an outline format that facilitates quick and easy review and mirrors the course in scope and sequence, this book helps you understand basic concepts and get the extra practice you need to excel in the course. It supports the all major differential equations textbooks and is useful for study in Calculus (I, II, and III), Mathematical Modeling, Introductory Differential Equations and Differential Equations.

Chapters include an Introduction to Modeling and Qualitative Methods, Classifications of First-Order Differential Equations, Linear Differential Equations, Variation of Parameters, Initial-Value Problems for Linear Differential Equations, Graphical and Numerical Methods for Solving First-Order Differential Equations, Solutions of Linear Differential Equations with Constant Coefficients by Laplace Transforms, and more.

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• NEW CHAPTERS include Autonomous Differential Equations and Qualitative Methods; Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors; three chapters dealing with Solutions of Systems of Autonomous Equations via Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors (real and distinct, real and equal, and complex conjugate Eigenvalues)
• 20 problem-solving videos online
• 563 solved problems
• Outline format provides a quick and easy review of differential equations
• Clear, concise explanations of differential equations concepts
• Hundreds of examples with explanations of key concepts
• Supports all major textbooks for differential equations courses
• Appropriate for the following courses: Calculus (I, II, and III), Mathematical Modeling, Introductory Differential Equations, and Differential Equations

Intended for use in a beginning one-semester course in differential equations, this text is designed for students of pure and applied mathematics with a working knowledge of algebra, trigonometry, and elementary calculus. Its mathematical rigor is balanced by complete but simple explanations that appeal to readers' physical and geometric intuition.
Starting with an introduction to differential equations, the text proceeds to examinations of first- and second-order differential equations, series solutions, the Laplace transform, systems of differential equations, difference equations, nonlinear differential equations and chaos, and partial differential equations. Numerous figures, problems with solutions, and historical notes clarify the text.

Superb, self-contained graduate-level text covers standard theorems concerning linear systems, existence and uniqueness of solutions, and dependence on parameters. Major focus on stability theory and its applications to oscillation phenomena, self-excited oscillations and regulator problem of Lurie. Bibliography. Exercises.

Written in an admirably cleancut and economical style. -- Mathematical Reviews.
This concise text offers undergraduates in mathematics and science a thorough and systematic first course in elementary differential equations. Presuming a knowledge of basic calculus, the book first reviews the mathematical essentials required to master the materials to be presented.
The next four chapters take up linear equations, those of the first order and those with constant coefficients, variable coefficients, and regular singular points. The last two chapters address the existence and uniqueness of solutions to both first order equations and to systems and n-th order equations.
Throughout the book, the author carries the theory far enough to include the statements and proofs of the simpler existence and uniqueness theorems. Dr. Coddington, who has taught at MIT, Princeton, and UCLA, has included many exercises designed to develop the student's technique in solving equations. He has also included problems (with answers) selected to sharpen understanding of the mathematical structure of the subject, and to introduce a variety of relevant topics not covered in the text, e.g. stability, equations with periodic coefficients, and boundary value problems.

Celebrated mathematician Shlomo Sternberg, a pioneer in the field of dynamical systems, created this modern one-semester introduction to the subject for his classes at Harvard University. Its wide-ranging treatment covers one-dimensional dynamics, differential equations, random walks, iterated function systems, symbolic dynamics, and Markov chains. Supplementary materials offer a variety of online components, including PowerPoint lecture slides for professors and MATLAB exercises.
Even though there are many dynamical systems books on the market, this book is bound to become a classic. The theory is explained with attractive stories illustrating the theory of dynamical systems, such as the Newton method, the Feigenbaum renormalization picture, fractal geometry, the Perron-Frobenius mechanism, and Google PageRank. -- Oliver Knill, PhD, Preceptor of Mathematics, Harvard University.

Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, this text introduces the stability theory and asymptotic behavior of solutions of linear and nonlinear differential equations. 1953 edition.

Version 6.8. An introductory course on differential equations aimed at engineers. The book covers first order ODEs, higher order linear ODEs, systems of ODEs, Fourier series and PDEs, eigenvalue problems, the Laplace transform, and power series methods. It has a detailed appendix on linear algebra. The book was developed and used to teach Math 286/285 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and in the decade since, it has been used in many classrooms, ranging from small community colleges to large public research universities. See https: //www.jirka.org/diffyqs/ for more information, updates, errata, and a list of classroom adoptions.

Differential Equations: A Visual Introduction for Beginners is written by a high school mathematics teacher who learned how to sequence and present ideas over a 30-year career of teaching grade-school mathematics. It is intended to serve as a bridge for beginning differential-equations students to study independently in preparation for a traditional differential-equations class or as supplemental material for students currently in such a class. It is highly visual with dozens of cartoon illustrations, dozens of MatLab graphs, dozens of tables, and dozens of other images throughout its 310 color pages as well as many correlative applets found on the internet that can be used to supplement the text. Comprehension and understanding of ideas is emphasized over symbol manipulation, although the latter is covered. Topics covered include definitions; Euler's method; separable, logistic, linear, exact, Bernoulli, and homogenous equations; slope fields; eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and eigenlines; solving systems of differential equations; Laplace transforms; and more.

Introductory treatment steers a course between simplistic and rigorous approaches to provide a concise overview for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Topics include Stokes phenomenon, one and two transition points, and applications to physical problems. 1962 edition.

This text offers students in mathematics, engineering, and the applied sciences a solid foundation for advanced studies in mathematics. Features coverage of integral equations and basic scattering theory. Includes exercises, many with answers. 1988 edition.

To the reader who wishes to obtain a bird's-eye view of the theory of differential forms with applications to other branches of pure mathematics, applied mathematic and physics, I can recommend no better book. -- T. J. Willmore, London Mathematical Society Journal.
This excellent text introduces the use of exterior differential forms as a powerful tool in the analysis of a variety of mathematical problems in the physical and engineering sciences. Requiring familiarity with several variable calculus and some knowledge of linear algebra and set theory, it is directed primarily to engineers and physical scientists, but it has also been used successfully to introduce modern differential geometry to students in mathematics.
Chapter I introduces exterior differential forms and their comparisons with tensors. The next three chapters take up exterior algebra, the exterior derivative and their applications. Chapter V discusses manifolds and integration, and Chapter VI covers applications in Euclidean space. The last three chapters explore applications to differential equations, differential geometry, and group theory.
The book is very readable, indeed, enjoyable -- and, although addressed to engineers and scientists, should be not at all inaccessible to or inappropriate for ... first year graduate students and bright undergraduates. -- F. E. J. Linton, Wesleyan University, American Mathematical Monthly.

This introductory treatment covers the basic concepts and machinery of stability theory. Lemmas, corollaries, proofs, and notes assist readers in working through and understanding the material and applications. Full of examples, theorems, propositions, and problems, it is suitable for graduate students in logic and mathematics, professional mathematicians, and computer scientists. Chapter 1 introduces the notions of definable type, heir, and coheir. A discussion of stability and order follows, along with definitions of forking that follow the approach of Lascar and Poizat, plus a consideration of forking and the definability of types. Subsequent chapters examine superstability, dividing and ranks, the relation between types and sets of indiscernibles, and further properties of stable theories. The text concludes with proofs of the theorems of Morley and Baldwin-Lachlan and an extension of dimension theory that incorporates orthogonality of types in addition to regular types.

Tips, tricks and lots of practice to help students get a handle on these complex calculus problems

Pre-calculus classes prepare students for studies in calculus and other advanced Differential equations are essential in physics, economics, engineering, and many other scientific and technical disciplines. This new Dummies Workbook is a hands-on companion for students grappling with differential equations in classes such as calculus, AP calculus, physics, and engineering. It features numerous practice exercises and clear, concise examples to help students improve their problem-solving skills and score better in science, math, and standardized tests. This practice-oriented workbook covers such challenging topics as first-order and second-order differential equations, constant coefficients, undetermined coefficients, variation of parameters, initial-value problems, the Laplace transform, and more.

Numerous worked examples and exercises highlight this unified treatment of the Hermitian operator theory in its Hilbert space setting. Its simple explanations of difficult subjects make it accessible to undergraduates as well as an ideal self-study guide.
Featuring full discussions of first and second order linear differential equations, the text introduces the fundamentals of Hilbert space theory and Hermitian differential operators. It derives the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of classical Hermitian differential operators, develops the general theory of orthogonal bases in Hilbert space, and offers a comprehensive account of Schr dinger's equations. In addition, it surveys the Fourier transform as a unitary operator and demonstrates the use of various differentiation and integration techniques.
Samuel S. Holland, Jr. is a professor of mathematics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has kept this text accessible to undergraduates by omitting proofs of some theorems but maintaining the core ideas of crucially important results. Intuitively appealing to students in applied mathematics, physics, and engineering, this volume is also a fine reference for applied mathematicians, physicists, and theoretical engineers.

Here's the perfect self-teaching guide to help anyone master differential equations--a common stumbling block for students looking to progress to advanced topics in both science and math. Covers First Order Equations, Second Order Equations and Higher, Properties, Solutions, Series Solutions, Fourier Series and Orthogonal Systems, Partial Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, Numerical Techniques, and more.

Algorithmic, or automatic, differentiation (AD) is a growing area of theoretical research and software development concerned with the accurate and efficient evaluation of derivatives for function evaluations given as computer programs. The resulting derivative values are useful for all scientific computations that are based on linear, quadratic, or higher order approximations to nonlinear scalar or vector functions. This second edition covers recent developments in applications and theory, including an elegant NP completeness argument and an introduction to scarcity. There is also added material on checkpointing and iterative differentiation. To improve readability the more detailed analysis of memory and complexity bounds has been relegated to separate, optional chapters. The book consists of: a stand-alone introduction to the fundamentals of AD and its software; a thorough treatment of methods for sparse problems; and final chapters on program-reversal schedules, higher derivatives, nonsmooth problems and iterative processes.

Most nonlinear differential equations arising in natural sciences admit chaotic behaviour and cannot be solved analytically. Integrable systems lie on the other extreme. They possess regular, stable, and well-behaved solutions known as solitons and instantons. These solutions play important roles in pure and applied mathematics as well as in theoretical physics where they describe configurations topologically different from vacuum. While integrable equations in lower space-time dimensions can be solved using the inverse scattering transform, the higher-dimensional examples of anti-self-dual Yang-Mills and Einstein equations require twistor theory. Both techniques rely on an ability to represent nonlinear equations as compatibility conditions for overdetermined systems of linear differential equations.

The book provides a self-contained and accessible introduction to the subject. It starts with an introduction to integrability of ordinary and partial differential equations. Subsequent chapters explore symmetry analysis, gauge theory, vortices, gravitational instantons, twistor transforms, and anti-self-duality equations. The three appendices cover basic differential geometry, complex manifold theory, and the exterior differential system.

Maybe for the first time in the existing literature, we investigate here the almost periodic type solutions to the abstract Volterra difference equations depending on several variables. We also investigate the generalized almost periodic type sequences and their applications in a rather detailed manner as well as many new important spaces of (metrically) generalized almost periodic type spaces of sequences and functions. We essenitally apply some results from the theory of C-regularized solution operator families to the abstract Volterra integro-differential-difference equations, contributing also to the theory of fractional calculus and fractional differential equations.

The theory of abstract Volterra integro-differential equations and the theory of abstract Volterra difference equations are very attractive fields of research of many authors. The almost periodic features and the asymptotically almost periodic features of solutions to the abstract Volterra differential-difference equations in Banach spaces have been sought in many research articles published by now.

The main aim of this monograph is to continue the work collected in my monographs published with W. de Gruyter recently by providing several new results about the existence and uniqueness of almost periodic type solutions to the abstract Volterra integro-differential-difference equations which could be solvable or unsolvable with respect to the highest derivative (order). We would like to particularly emphasize that this is probably the first research monograph devoted to the study of almost periodic type solutions to the abstract Volterra difference equations depending on several variables. We also consider here many new important spaces of (metrically) generalized almost periodic type spaces of sequences and functions, and their almost automorphic analogues. It is also worth noting that this is probably the first research monograph which concerns the generalized almost periodic type sequences and their applications in a rather detailed manner; for the first time in the existing literature, we also present here some applications of results from the theory of $C$-regularized solution operator families to the abstract Volterra difference equations.

Fractional calculus and discrete fractional calculus are rapidly growing fields of theoretical and applied mathematics, which are incredibly important in modeling of various real phenomena appearing in different fields like aerodynamics, rheology, interval-valued systems, chaotic systems with short memory and image encryption and discrete-time recurrent neural networks. Many important research results regarding the abstract fractional differential equations and the abstract fractional difference equations in Banach spaces have recently been obtained by a great number of authors from the whole world. In this monograph, we also contribute to the theories of (discrete) fractional calculus, fractional differential-difference equations and multi-dimensional Laplace transform.

Although the monograph is far from being complete, we have decided to quote almost eight hundred and fifty research articles which could be of some importance to the interested readers for further developments of the theory established here.

Most nonlinear differential equations arising in natural sciences admit chaotic behaviour and cannot be solved analytically. Integrable systems lie on the other extreme. They possess regular, stable, and well-behaved solutions known as solitons and instantons. These solutions play important roles in pure and applied mathematics as well as in theoretical physics where they describe configurations topologically different from vacuum. While integrable equations in lower space-time dimensions can be solved using the inverse scattering transform, the higher-dimensional examples of anti-self-dual Yang-Mills and Einstein equations require twistor theory. Both techniques rely on an ability to represent nonlinear equations as compatibility conditions for overdetermined systems of linear differential equations.

The book provides a self-contained and accessible introduction to the subject. It starts with an introduction to integrability of ordinary and partial differential equations. Subsequent chapters explore symmetry analysis, gauge theory, vortices, gravitational instantons, twistor transforms, and anti-self-duality equations. The three appendices cover basic differential geometry, complex manifold theory, and the exterior differential system.