Description
For introductory courses in Differential Equations.
This highest-selling text by these well known authors blends the traditional algebra problem solving skills with the conceptual development and geometric visualization of a up to date differential equations course that is very important to science and engineering students. It reflects the brand new qualitative approach that may be altering the learning of elementary differential equations, including the wide availability of scientific computing environments like Maple, Mathematica, and MATLAB. Its center of attention balances the traditional manual methods with the brand new computer-based methods that remove darkness from qualitative phenomena and make accessible a much wider range of more realistic applications. Seldom-used topics have been trimmed and new topics added: it starts and ends with discussions of mathematical modeling of real-world phenomena, evident in figures, examples, problems, and applications right through the text.