Ordinary differential equations /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Carrier, George F.
Imprint:	Philadelphia, Pa. : Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM, 3600 Market Street, Floor 6, Philadelphia, PA 19104), 1991.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 220 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Classics in applied mathematics ; 6 Classics in applied mathematics ; 6.
Subject:	Differential equations. Differential equations
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12577417

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Other authors / contributors:	Pearson, Carl E. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
ISBN:	9781611971293 1611971292 0898712653 9780898712650
Notes:	Title from title screen, viewed 04/05/2011. Originally published: Waltham, Mass. : Blaisdell Pub. Co., 1968. Includes bibliographical references and index. Also available in print version.
Summary:	Offers an alternative to the "rote" approach of presenting standard categories of differential equations accompanied by routine problem sets. The exercises presented amplify and provide perspective for the material, often giving readers opportunity for ingenuity. Little or no previous acquaintance with the subject is required to learn usage of techniques for constructing solutions of differential equations in this reprint volume.
Other form:	Print version: 0898712653 9780898712650

Table of Contents:

Introduction
First-order linear differential equations
Second-order differential equations
Power- series descriptions
The Wronskian
Eigenvalue problems
The second-order linear nonhomogeneous equation
Expansions in Eigenfunctions
The perturbation expansion
Asymptotic series
Special functions
The Laplace transform
Rudiments of the variational calculus
Separation of variables and product series solutions of partial differential equations
Nonlinear differential equations
More on difference equations
Numerical methods
Singular perturbation methods.

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