Timeline for Good/Economical textbook for undergraduate intro to diff.eq. for engineers?
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| May 13, 2011 at 1:10 | comment | added | roy smith | Tenenbaum and Pollard is indeed outstanding. Good workable examples, a correct definition of a differential, and solutions techniques I had never seen elsewhere. I posted a review (as mathwonk) on Amazon after using it for a course. | |
| Jul 12, 2010 at 19:25 | comment | added | Michael Hoffman | +1'd this, Dover is a reasonable alternative, though the notation can sometimes be difficult to parse. Also some are terribly typeset, but they're Well worth the investigation | |
| Apr 21, 2010 at 23:25 | comment | added | Miguel | Another classic book is Hirsh and Smale: amazon.com/… | |
| Apr 19, 2010 at 19:50 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Kim Morrison | ||
| Apr 15, 2010 at 21:09 | comment | added | The Mathemagician | Coddington is one of the WORST textbooks in the history of the subject. IT HAS NO APPLICATIONS! That's like trying to do King Kong without the ape....... | |
| Apr 15, 2010 at 19:59 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | I liked Coddington's textbook from Dover. (Without Levinson...) At the end I added a bit on Laplace transform. | |
| Apr 15, 2010 at 19:02 | history | answered | Miguel | CC BY-SA 2.5 |