Differential Equations with Mathematica, Third Edition

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Abell and Braselton strike a nice balance between the analytical solution of differential equations by hand, and numerical solution by computer. Mathematica is used to simplify some of the details, but they teach how to do everything by hand, including programming runge-kutta solution methods, fourier series, and other topics that lazier authors might have skipped over.

Every chapter starts with basic definitions and builds to useful solution techniques. The book is packed with fully worked examples. My edition is a few years old and talks about the "newly released" Mathematica 3.0, but everything applies just as well to version 4.2.


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Differential Equations with Mathematica, Third Edition Overviews

The Third Edition of the Differential Equations with Mathematica integrates new applications from a variety of fields,especially biology, physics, and engineering. The new handbook is also completely compatible with recent versions of Mathematica and is a perfect introduction for Mathematica beginners. The book/CD-ROM package contains built-in commands that lets the user solve problems directly using graphical solutions.

* Focuses on the most often used features of Mathematica for the beginning Mathematica user
* CD-ROM contains all Mathematica inputs from the text
* New applications from a variety of fields, including engineering, biology, and physics
* All applications were completed using recent versions of Mathematica

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Customer Review

Not Good as a Text - Redmond Geek -
If you're taking a course in ODEs and your primary text doesn't have some kind of Mathematica supplement, then this book might help you learn to solve differential equations with Mathematica.

However, this book most emphatically is *NOT* a good place to learn diffy Q's if you're a novice or you don't have some other source of instruction. The author tends to dance around from topic to topic a bit much; she frequently presents the "condensed" version of definitions or proofs; and she has a tendency to drop very advanced notions (e.g. nonlinear equations) into the middle of simple discussions without warning. Much of the time, she seems to be assuming that her audience already knows the subject matter, so she can just give a quick sketch of some topic.

This book really doesn't provide enough value to justify its high price.

barely adequate as introduction - Patrick Linnen -
I am using this book to brush up on the subject. In Chap 2, for instance, I have found a couple of places were the examples using Mathematica and those worked out on paper do not follow each other. Errors generated are shown for some Mathematica examples but not others.
Heavily dependent on using Mathematica to do the legwork, coverage of the basics is sparse.
Not a book for people just starting out learning Differential Equations. I would have rated this book lower if I was depending on it as a textbook or tutorial.

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