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EAN: 9780005377185 Edition: 2nd Ed. 2002 Format: Student Edition ISBN: 0005377188 Label: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co. Manufacturer: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co. Number Of Pages: 816 Publication Date: 2002 Publisher: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co. Studio: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co. Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The authors stress a more balanced approach, one that includes analytic, numeric, and graphical techniques. The book emphasizes modeling and qualitative theory throughout the course. It employs technology significantly and consistently, presents linear and nonlinear systems in parallel, and includes an introduction to discrete dynamical systems. This text grew out of the Boston University Differential Equations Project, funded in part by the National Science Foundation Average Rating:
 Rating: - Worst mathematics book EVERThe authors attempt to teach differential equations in paragraph form. They define jargon with more jargon and supplement it with variables that they either don't define or define in terms so ridiculously ambiguous that they are impossible to decipher into English. Here is one example from page 6: "The pair of equations dP/dt = kP for all t, P(0)=Po is called an initial-value problem. A solution to the initial value problem ... Read More 
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