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Title: Elementary Differential Equations (8th Edition) by Earl D. Rainville, Phillip E. Bedient, Richard E. Bedient ISBN: 0-13-508011-8 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 23 October, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $93.19

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (6 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: my favourite ODEs text!
Comment: I was stuck with Boyce/DiPrima for an ODEs course & I didn't like it, but I found this one in their bibliography & it turned out to be much better. I think there ARE enough examples to make things clear, and lots & lots of problems to work through. Also, it doesn't make a difference to me whether there's a solutions manual or if it has mistakes because I never use one; I just plug the solutions into the equation & see of they work. (I guess if there are mistakes, they should be fixed though)

Rating: 2
Summary: Elementary Differential Equations
Comment: [..]Let me warn all potential customers that this book is all about quantity of material instead of quality. While the book does cover such advanced topics as Fourier Analysis and intro to Partial Differential Equations, the book lacks sufficient examples about what is being said (a number of sections have no examples at all).

I did find the most well-written sections to be the application of second-order differential equations (applied to spring oscillations etc.) However, as far as getting a bang for your buck, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND Morris Tennenbaum and Harry Polland's Ordinary Differential Equations Dover edition (cheaper, and MUCH MORE effective. Trust me).

Rating: 5
Summary: Concise Not Bulky
Comment: I love the book, as a Math major it doesn't take any space on the shelf. There were a few errors in the book, but not enough make the book suck. Good, solid book Once you get the ideas it becomes easy.