Fundamentals of Ordinary Differential Equations

ISBN : 9783031865312

Author : Uri Elias

Publisher : Springer

Year : 2025

Language : English

Type : Book

Description : This textbook offers an introduction to ODEs that focuses on the qualitative behavior of differential equations rather than specialized methods for solving them. The book is organized around this approach with important topics, such as existence, uniqueness, qualitative behaviour, and stability, appearing in early chapters and explicit solution methods covered later. Proofs are included in an approachable manner, which are first motivated by describing the main ideas in a general sense before being written out in detail. A clear and accessible writing style is used, containing numerous examples and calculations throughout the text. Two appendices offer readers further material to explore, with the first using the orbits of the planets as an illustrative example and the second providing insightful historical notes. After reading this book, students will have a strong foundation for a course in PDEs or mathematical modeling.

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