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There will not be a standard required text for this course. However, there are plenty of books in the library, or you could borrow one of mine periodically. Much of the information you will need can also be found on the Internet and in the class notes. Useful reference materials are listed below. Specific references will be placed on the materials page along with class worksheets. 

Main Topics

  • Systems of Equations, Dynamical Systems and Chaos

  • Boundary Value Problems

Online Differential Equations Lectures

Textbooks on ODEs

In Library

  • Differential equations : a dynamical systems approach / John H. Hubbard, Beverly H. West
  • Differential equations and their applications / Martin Braun
  • Differential equations : a modern approach / Harry Hochstadt
  • Dynamical systems : differential equations, maps, and chaotic behaviour / D.K. Arrowsmith and C.M. Place

Inexpensive Texts

Some Standard Texts

Other Texts

K. T. Aligood, T. D. Sauer, and J. A. Yorke, Chaos, an introduction to dynamical systems, Springer-Verlag.
V. I. Arnold, Ordinary Differential Equations, MIT press or Springer Verlag.
G. F. Carrier and C. E. Pearson, Ordinary Differential Equations, Blaisdell.
E. A. Coddington, An Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations, Prentice Hall.
R. L Devaney, An Introduction to Chaotic Dynamical Systems, Benjamin-Cummings.
M. W. Hirsch and S. Smale, Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems, and Linear Algebra, Academic Press.
I. Percival and D. Richards, Introduction to Dynamics, Cambridge University Press.
D. A. Sanchez, Ordinary Differential Equations and Stability Theory: an Introduction, Dover.
G. F. Simmons, Differential Equations with Applications and Historical Notes, McGraw-Hill.
S. H. Strogatz, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos with Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering, Addison-Wesley.
S. Wiggins, Introduction to Applied Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Chaos, Springer Verlag.

 

 

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