Fundamentals of Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems (6th Edition)

This is my favorite text book, by far, for undergrad differential equations. I took differential equations in college awhile back and thought I needed a refresher before tackling vibration as an intro into quantum mechanics which is a hobby. Well, I needed more than a "refresher," and had to restart from the basics. I purchased a handful of the current undergrad texts and examined a few of the others.This text (along with its student solution manual) stood out as the perfect self-study book. Not only is it thorough and rigorous, but the applications to oscillation and other areas in physics were quite informative. By the time I completed this text, having solved most of the problems, not only had I learnt enough differential equation to comfortably move on to more advanced levels. And the thorough exposure to oscillation turned out to be quite valuable.

This was the book required for my Differential Equations class 2 years ago now. I was probably one of the rare people who actually reads the chapters in books like these. It usually does a good job of explaining the process of solving the problems, if memory serves. Some chapter can get a bit concept heavy and hard to work through, but that's just the nature of the subject I'm sure. The modeling of heat flow chapter is one example of this, I must've read that chapter 2-3 times over and still couldn't manage to figure out where everything was coming from, but the few times that happened aside it was helpful. I also liked the little jokes added into some of the examples as notes "The driving force for oscillatory motion on a metal spring mattress is best left to the readers imagination, our editors say."All in all a good book.

Good book. Examples aren't really thorough, but you'll end up figuring out what the author did.There are, however, flaws. In the back where the answers are, there are some answers that are completely wrong. Someone messed up the numbers. In the original problem, it dealt with x's and y's, but in the back(for that same problem), it had theta's. I checked it at least 5 times, and other students had the same problem with their book. But there were a few that didn't have that problem.I don't remember which section and problem it was though.

Finished the Calculus Cycle in Boulder in 1975, now reliving my youth as part of an Economics study program. Thus far standard text, challenging problems.Kindle version allows portability to office and home, forced change from "underlining and margin scribbling" to actual notepad use with iPAD - changes actually of benefit.

The professor asked some of the students (including myself) to do a self-study on one of the chapters (Series Solutions to DifEQ's) and the material was presented very well and the problems greatly reinforced it. Good text.

The purchase of Fundamental of Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems was required for class. I haven't used them yet. They did arrive in good condition and promptly.

Notice! The solutions manual shown paired in the "frequently bought together" section is for the fifth edition of Diff Eq + Boundary value problems. The sixth ed. solution manual is this: 978-0321748348

As soon as I opened the book to start studying for my class the first few pages fell out. I'm glad I rented this and it wasn't that expensive.