Timeline for Undergraduate ODE textbook following Rota
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| Apr 17, 2019 at 1:51 | comment | added | G. H. Hardly | I love Rota's essay. Is there a book similar in style and content on the subject of Probability? I realize the subject is vast; I was wondering if there is something that builds intuition for probability, distributions, random variables, Bayesian thinking, etc. I know there are a bunch of 'popsci' books, but I am not looking for those. Rather something more mathematically grounded that doesn't shy away from equations. | |
| Mar 10, 2019 at 11:13 | answer | added | Nick Crawford | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 26, 2018 at 12:03 | answer | added | Gerald Edgar | timeline score: -3 | |
| Nov 26, 2018 at 11:54 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | >>I, a number theorist, have been told that I am to teach an undergraduate ODE class one year from now. (Nevermind that my familiarity with ODEs is, to put it mildly, minimal.)<< Graduate students in Number Theory (and other specialties) should hear this. Only 20% of math Ph.D.s end up at math departments large enough where they can avoid teaching differential equations (and other undergraduate topics). So when graduate students come up with the argument "I'll never need that in my research" there is this sensible conter-argument, "Mayb not, but you likely will need it in your teaching." | |
| Nov 25, 2018 at 23:18 | answer | added | guest | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 13, 2018 at 2:16 | answer | added | Peter Thomas | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 16, 2016 at 16:11 | comment | added | Al-Amrani | In my question/answer (2 years ago) "Teaching profession:Differential Equations and Mean Value Theorems" I mentioned the book Ordinary Differential Equations, by Wolfgang Walter (Springer GTM,1998), as a very good textbook (at least for the teatcher ! | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 2:54 | comment | added | Jeff H | @MarkMeckes I've not been misled about anything, but thanks for your concern. | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 2:54 | comment | added | Jeff H | @L Spice: There are many questions regarding textbook recommendations on this site. (Notice the last tag on my post.) | |
| Apr 10, 2016 at 12:58 | history | edited | Amir Sagiv |
No right or wrong on this question
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| Apr 9, 2016 at 19:35 | answer | added | Armadillo Jim | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 9, 2016 at 17:29 | comment | added | Mark Meckes | You sound as though you were surprised to learn that you'll be teaching undergraduate ODEs. If so, you've been badly misled about something. | |
| Apr 9, 2016 at 17:22 | comment | added | Mark Meckes | @lenticcatachresis en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_problem_(mathematics_education) | |
| Apr 9, 2016 at 7:07 | comment | added | Bruno Stonek | Can anybody explain what is meant by a "word problem" in paragraph 8? | |
| Apr 9, 2016 at 6:43 | answer | added | Duchamp Gérard H. E. | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 8, 2016 at 23:15 | comment | added | user288447 | Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations by Albert L. Rabenstein | |
| Apr 8, 2016 at 22:32 | comment | added | Fan Zheng | A side remark: there seems to be a typo on page 9 about the convolution of two Dirac measures: it should be $\sum_{i,j} \delta_{a_i+b_j}$ rather than $\sum_{i,j} \delta_{a_i}+\delta_{b_j}$. | |
| Apr 8, 2016 at 22:06 | comment | added | LSpice | I like the question very much, but might it be better suited for MESE? | |
| Apr 8, 2016 at 22:06 | answer | added | LSpice | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 8, 2016 at 20:45 | answer | added | roy smith | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 8, 2016 at 20:18 | history | edited | Myshkin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
+ top level tag (ca.)
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| Apr 8, 2016 at 19:46 | answer | added | Andrei Halanay | timeline score: 15 | |
| Apr 8, 2016 at 16:56 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | I'm making this CW because I doubt there is one optimal answer, but: great question. I instantly love the Rota essay (I've read a fair amount of Rota essays, but this one is now near the top for me). I am reminded that I once taught the dreaded course in the dreaded way as a graduate student, and my friend from grad school days who at MO is alvarezpaiva also taught it that same summer, but infinitely better (probably from his own notes and insights, but maybe referring to Coddington and Levinson here and there). A thoroughly geometric course, and I hope he sees and can answer this question. | |
| Apr 8, 2016 at 16:46 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Apr 8, 2016 at 16:04 | history | asked | Jeff H | CC BY-SA 3.0 |