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Differential Equations with Applications (Dover Books on Mathematics)

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This book presents the basic ideas of ordinary and partial differential equations in a more in-depth manner than most other books and does so in a not-too-hard-to-follow way. If you are a mathematics major and want a more rigorous disscussion of differential equations, then go for this book. Also this book has some topics not explored in other books, like difference equations, non-linear differential equations and the stablity of solutions to differential equations. All in all, a great book for the mathematics major.

I had to self teach myself math in college as I can't understand my professors. I've done this using the required textbook all the way through calculus 3. differential equations is my last class, but I can't understand this textbook at all at... it does a terrible job explaining everything, even things that would normally be simple concepts! I've been using a combination of youtube and other online resources to teach myself. anyone stuck with this textbook, do yourself a favor and use paul's online notes or something else online to learn.

My class uses this book for diff eq. at a university. I have found my dads old diff eq. textbook much more helpful than this.