Differential Equations Demystified

By Steven G. Krantz

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071440259
• ISBN13: 9780071440257
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Length: 323 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent

I bought this book because I am considering getting a graduate degree in math, so I thought it would be useful as a book to brush up with. This book is highly readable and the examples are laid out well. There are ample exercises to test your knowledge of the various techniques for solving diff eqs, answers are included also. It is quite a bit better than the text that was used in engineering school.

Perfect for my application

I teach this subject. The book is perfect for a first course whose purpose is to introduce foundational topics from both ordinary and partial differential equations. Not a lot of theory, but I find that the theory undergirding a technique is a lot more palatable when the student has confidence in his ability to use that technique in practice. DE Demystified gets right to the point, presents the method, and then gives examples and practice problems. I learn math by doing it and this book is just what I was looking for. Several other books are available in the classroom for students who choose to go more in depth on any particular topic, and I use other resources for additional problems and to code programs for numerical solutions. But this is the book the students must buy and bring to class. I really like the presentation in DE Demystified.