Need a good course or textbook to learn intermediate ODE's

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The discussion centers around finding suitable textbooks or resources for learning intermediate ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Participants express dissatisfaction with existing materials and seek recommendations for alternatives that provide worked examples and cover advanced topics.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant expresses frustration with "Hirsch, Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems and Introduction to Chaos" due to the lack of solutions to problems, which hampers their learning.
  • Another participant suggests "Schaum's Outline of Differential Equations" as it contains many solved problems.
  • A participant inquires whether Schaum's outline covers more advanced topics in ODEs, as they are in a second course out of several.
  • Recommendations are made for "Ordinary Differential Equations" by Arnold and "Differential Equations: A Dynamical Systems Approach" by Hubbard & West, both of which are described as great resources.

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Participants do not reach a consensus on a single best resource, indicating multiple competing views on the effectiveness of different textbooks and the need for more advanced materials.

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Participants express concerns about the lack of worked examples in their current resources, which may limit their understanding. There is also uncertainty regarding the coverage of advanced topics in suggested materials.

Who May Find This Useful

Students enrolled in intermediate differential equations courses seeking effective textbooks or resources that include worked examples and cover advanced topics.

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sorry if this is not the correct place to be asking this question. I looked around for a more appropriate forum.

Anyways I am trying to learn differential equations from "Hirsch, Differential equations, dynamical systems and and Introduction to chaos" and I'm absolutely fed up with this book. Completely fed up. It would be ok if there were solutions to the problems, but there are not (that I know of) and therefore I am basically without any really good resources to learn this stuff. Does anyone know of a good textbook that covers the same material, or know of an online resource? I will fail this class if I do not find an actual useful book soon. Office hours are not enough!

thanks!

sucks that a potentially useful book can be ruined by the reluctance to show worked examples in a solution manual...
 
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Try Schaum's outline of DE,it have a lot of solved Problems.
 
hey thanks for the input snow-leopard!

I'll go downtown and check it out! Does it cover more advanced topics in ODE's though? This course is the second out of 4 or 5 DE courses I must take. Most of the resources I have found are basically for a first course in differential equations.

I got the schuams manual for calculus and it covered most of my first three courses though so I hope it's the same for ODE's!
 

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