Ordinary Differential Equations 1e 1962

by Garrett Birkhoff and Gian-Carlo Rota

Book Overview

A carefully revised edition of the well-respected ODE text, whose unique treatment provides a smooth transition to critical understanding of proofs of basic theorems. First chapters present a rigorous... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B004VIHHGM
• Release Date: January 1962
• Publisher: Ginn
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Good text but watch for errors

This is a good text for a course in ODE after the computational course is completed. This book covers many topics in ODE, but be careful and watch for errors; especially near the end of the text. Most of the errors come in the excercises. For instance: you are asked to show that "every finite sequence of eigenfunctions of a S-L system is bounded". Duh! This is trivial until one realizes that every infinite sequence is also bounded.