Differential Equations, Mechanic, and Computation [Student Edition] [Paperback]

Richard S. Palais (Author), Robert A. Palais (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 313 pages
• Publisher: American Mathematical Society (December 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0821821385
• ISBN-13: 978-0821821381
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,538,071 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

RICHARD S. PALAIS received his B.A. from Harvard College in 1952 and his Ph.D., also from Harvard, in 1956. After a long career in teaching and theoretical research at Brandeis, he partially retired in 1997 to work on developing a mathematical visualization program (see:
http://3D-XplorMath.org),
and he has also helped develop a Virtual Mathematical Museum (see: http://VirtualMathMuseum.org).
He moved to UC Irvine in 2004, where he teaches part time while continuing to program and write about novel algorithms for visualizing complex mathematics. He is proud of his many mathematical descendants (70 according to the Mathematical Genealogy Project) and also for an entry (together with Luc Benard) in the 2006 NSF/Science Magazine Scientific Visualization Challenge that won First Prize and was on the Sept. 22, 2006 cover of Science (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol313/issue5794/cover.dtl). Recently he has co-authored with his son Bob Palais a textbook on Ordinary Differential Equations with many novel features. Published by The American Math. Society in 2009, it is available from Amazon and has a companion website at http://ode-math.com where you can find many interesting interactive visualizations that could not go into the book.