Overview
- Discuses essential topics completely, concisely, and succinctly, in "everyday classroom language" without unnecessary embellishment
- Includes extensive examples and exercises without the need for a computing device
- To be used both independently by average students and as a basic framework in the fundamentals of the subject for more advanced students
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics and Technology (SUMAT)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers is a book designed with students in mind. It attempts to take a concise, simple, and no-frills approach to differential equations. The approach used in this text is to give students extensive experience in main solution techniques with a lighter emphasis on the physical interpretation of the results. With a more manageable page count than comparable titles, and over 400 exercises that can be solved without a calculating device, this book emphasizes the understanding and practice of essential topics in a succinct fashion. At the end of each worked example, the author provides the Mathematica commands that can be used to check the results and where applicable, to generate graphical representations. It can be used independently by the average student, while those continuing with the subject will develop a fundamental framework with which to pursue more advanced material. This book is designed for undergraduate students with some basic knowledge of precalculus algebra and a first course in calculus.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The author of this book does a does a very creditable job of providing the basic material of ordinary differential equations. … The book is largely aimed at average students in mathematics, science or engineering. The author suggests that stronger students can use the text as a bridge to more specialized books or more advanced courses. … There are many exercises.” (William J. Satzer, MAA Reviews, November, 2013)
“The author writes this book respecting his readers and caring about the way of exposing his ideas. The book is written in a style that uses words as a bonding agent between consecutive mathematical passages, which creates a pleasant and comfortable lecture. … The book contains 232 worked examples and 810 exercises. … We kindly recommend this book to future engineers and scientists as well as to all those interested in the topic, who encounter differential equations in their professional work.” (Alexandru Negrescu, zbMATH, Vol. 1272, 2013)Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Differential Equations
Book Subtitle: A Primer for Scientists and Engineers
Authors: Christian Constanda
Series Title: Springer Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7297-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-7297-1Published: 22 May 2013
Series ISSN: 1867-5506
Series E-ISSN: 1867-5514
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 263
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations