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For questions related to teaching mathematics. For questions in Mathematics Education as a scientific discipline there is also the tag mathematics-education. Note you may also ask your question on http://matheducators.stackexchange.com/.

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What do we learn from the Wronskian in the theory of linear ODEs?

So in an ODE course that I am currently teaching, I'm facing the following problem: (1) Despite its prevalence in courses and textbooks, I've rarely (not to say never) encountered any situation where … Maybe a word on the notion "good for" that occurs in the question: I'm pretty comfortable with studying and teaching mathematical objects just in order to better understand them, or for the sake of their …