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Old thread, but I'm curious, has anyone read the second volume of Feller's Into to Prob. Theory and its Apps? I have the first volume (and have been putting off reading it to be honest) but I'm curious as to the worth of the second volume.

Welp, probably not 'quite' as much as is taught during the full semester but we had a thorough treatment of multivariate techniques; the thing that we slacked on primarily was applications in physics and engineering. For example, we covered Newton's Law of Conservation of Energy with respect to...

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=58036 Was not aware a thread had been constructed with regard to this topic already, my apologies.

We're working out of Zill and Wright, it's not a horrible book in all honesty but in my experience so far with mathematics, I've found the older texts (50-70's) do a better job of getting at the heart of the concepts rather than trying to show everything from several viewpoints. The Guterman...

Hi, I am taking (ordinary) differential equations as a summer course and we are studying from a horrid textbook, in my opinion. Just curious if anyone might be able to suggest what is considered to be the "standard" introductory text on ODE. While I'm certainly interested in PDE, I don't...

For what it is worth, it turned out to be very enjoyable but very much a full-day job. I ended with a B in the course but in some respects an A would have been easily obtainable at the regular semester pace. I'm doing the same thing now with differential equations so here's to hoping that it...

Aside from the initial shock I experienced during Calculus I and II (II was where it really affected my grade) of not having read Trigonometry in close to 6 years, I don't find Calculus difficult. I think it will be fine to take Calculus IV this Summer.

I am taking Introduction to Linear Algebra this semester in addition to Calculus III and have enjoyed the content - it's interesting how varied the treatment of notation can be in different textbooks but I've grasped it pretty well. No differential equation experience yet, so far as classes are...

Hi all, My apologies for not including the course descriptions in my original post. Calculus I. Three hours lecture. Analytic geometry; functions; limits; continuity; derivatives of algebraic functions; applications of the derivative. Honors section available. Calculus II. Three hours...

Hi. I have taken Cal 1-2 and am now wrapping up Cal 3 this Spring semester. My university offers a Cal 4 course during a 4 week summer term. This past summer, I took Calculus 1 during the summer, after a couple years break from mathematics (I'm a natural resources graduate student), and...