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Title: Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems by William E. Boyce, Richard C. DiPrima ISBN: 0-471-31999-6 Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: 21 July, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $114.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.94 (36 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good
Comment: This book has basically everything for a full-year course, and it is explained pretty clearly. LOTS of solutions to problems are in the back, which was very helpful. The problems I had with the book include that many things took more space and time than needed and many times better examples could have been used, but if you don't mind reading a lot, this is a pretty good book.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best
Comment: I was long looking for a book on differential equations and I found this one to be the most easy to follow. There are lots of solved problems and interesting exercises. I recommend it to everyone who has had an introductory course in diff. equations, but who'd like to pursue a deeper treatment of the subject.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best mainstream ODE text
Comment: This is the best mainstream book on (ordinary) Diff. Eqns. It is mainly oriented to engineers but a math major could benefit from it as well. Like most books on this subject it emphasizes on solving relatively small classes of Diff. Eqns, namely those that can be solved in closed form and like most of those books avoids, but not completely, the qualitative study of the subject. However, I believe that this is the best compromise of a "recipe book" and a book that really tries to encourage understanding of the subject.
The book suffers from too many examples and pictures. The examples take too much space and have too many details. I can hardly blame the authors for this - they, and the publisher, just want to sell more books, and they have therefore to follow the general trend. You either have to write a book like this, or a real one, like Arnold's book, but that would be a book for a few only. "Proof" in Boyce-DiPrima is a dirty word but so is in any other mainstream text on Diff. Eqns.
It was interesting to me to read most of the negative reviews here. Poor mathematical background makes many readers believe that the exercises are hard, the answers are put in weird form (meaning the reader has problems with middle school algebra), etc. If anything, many of the exercises are too easy. Those, who need Mathematica for solving integrals - you'd better retake your Calculus course. There are very few examples that really require Mathematica and they are mentioned clearly. Really interesting and challenging problems can be found sometimes but authors clearly understand that too many of those would hurt the sale numbers. One reader wrote: "This book makes ODEs and PDEs look much more difficult than they really are. " Well, like many other books, this book does not give you the slightest idea what ODEs and PDEs really are (try John's book as an introduction to PDEs), they are far more intellectually challenging and deep that most students can imagine.
After so much negative comments, why do I still think that this is a good book? Because you cannot beat the system, at least this is not the way, and the math culture of most readers and students is not adequate to appreciate a real book (try Arnold). If you want a book that is still readable by the majority of the undergrad students, then this is the best one. If you want a real one, look elsewhere but do not complain that the author does not show the steps when solving a quadratic equation.
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Title: Elementary Linear Algebra with Applications by Richard O. Hill ISBN: 0030103479 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: 08 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $98.95 |
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Title: Linear Algebra and Its Applications (3rd Edition) by David C. Lay ISBN: 0201709708 Publisher: Pearson Addison Wesley Pub. Date: 18 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $108.00 |
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Title: Student's Solution Manual to Accompany Elementary Differential Equations by Haines, William E. Boyce ISBN: 0471551279 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: January, 1992 List Price(USD): $27.70 |
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Title: Elementary Differential Equations by William E. Boyce, Richard C. DiPrima ISBN: 0471319988 Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: 21 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $104.95 |
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Title: Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems by Jerry B. Marion, Stephen T. Thornton ISBN: 0030973023 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: 17 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $129.95 |
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