A Textbook on Ordinary Differential Equations

This book offers readers a primer on the theory and applications of Ordinary Differential Equations. The style used is simple, yet thorough and rigorous. Each chapter ends with a broad set of exercises that range from the routine to the more challenging and thought-provoking. Solutions to selected e...

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Main Authors: Ahmad, Shair. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Ambrosetti, Antonio. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:2nd ed. 2015.
Series:La Matematica per il 3+2, 88
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16408-3
Table of Contents:
  • 1 First order linear differential equations
  • 2 Theory of first order differential equations
  • 3 First order nonlinear differential equations
  • 4 Existence and uniqueness for systems and higher order equations
  • 5 Second order equations
  • 6 Higher order linear equations
  • 7 Systems of first order equations
  • 8 Qualitative analysis of 2x2 systems and nonlinear second order equations
  • 9 Sturm Liouville eigenvalue theory
  • 10 Solutions by infinite series and Bessel functions
  • 11 Laplace transform
  • 12 Stability theory
  • 13 Boundary value problems
  • 14 Appendix A. Numerical methods
  • 15 Answers to selected exercises.