Ordinary Differential Equations: From Calculus to Dynamical Systems

Noonburg, Virginia W.

ISBN 10: 1939512042 / ISBN 13: 9781939512048

Verlag: The Mathematical Association of America, NP, 2014

Beschreibung

A Very Good copy in laminated pictorial hard covers of the third printing. Ownership stamp at the front endpaper and inside the rear cover, else close to as new. No dust jacket, apparently as issued. (Not ex-library.).

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 061318

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Ordinary Differential Equations: From Calculus to Dynamical Systems
• Verlag: The Mathematical Association of America, NP
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1939512042
• ISBN-13: 9781939512048
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: First Edition.
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket
• Buchtyp: Book

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

Techniques for studying ordinary differential equations (ODEs) have become part of the required toolkit for students in the applied sciences. This book presents a modern treatment of the material found in a first undergraduate course in ODEs. Standard analytical methods for first- and second-order equations are covered first, followed by numerical and graphical methods, and bifurcation theory. Higher dimensional theory follows next via a study of linear systems of first-order equations, including background material in matrix algebra. A phase plane analysis of two-dimensional nonlinear systems is a highlight, while an introduction to dynamical systems and an extension of bifurcation theory to cover systems of equations will be of particular interest to biologists. With an emphasis on real-world problems, this book is an ideal basis for an undergraduate course in engineering and applied sciences such as biology, or as a refresher for beginning graduate students in these areas.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Virginia W. Noonburg gained a BA in Mathematics from Cornell University, before spending four years as a computer programmer at the knolls Atomic Power Lab near Schenectady, New York. After returning to Cornell and earning a PhD in Mathematics, she taught first at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and then at the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut (from which she has recently retired as professor emerita). During the late 1980s she twice taught as a visiting professor at Cornell, and also earned a Cornell MS Eng degree in Computer Science.