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The authors stress a more balanced approach, one that includes analytic, numeric, and graphical techniques. The book emphasizes modeling and qualitative theory throughout the course. It employs technology significantly and consistently, presents linear and nonlinear systems in parallel, and includes an introduction to discrete dynamical systems.This text grew out of the Boston University Differential Equations Project, funded in part by the National Science Foundation.
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A departure from the typical "cookbook" differential equations text, this book/CD-ROM package focuses on the formulation of differential equations and the interpretation of their solutions. To enhance understanding of solutions, equations are tackled from qualitative, numerical, geometric, and graphical perspectives. Other nontraditional features of the text include the incorporation of modeling throughout, and adoption of a dynamical systems perspective. The CD-ROM is new to this edition and contains demonstrations keyed to text exercises. It also includes computer-based tools for investigating the behavior of solutions of differential equations both numerically and graphically. Blanchard has taught college mathematics for 25 years. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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