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 enlarge | Authors: Morris Tenenbaum, Harry Pollard
Publisher: Dover Publications
Category: Book
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Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 7221
Media: Paperback
Pages: 818
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.7
ISBN: 0486649407
Dewey Decimal Number: 515.35
EAN: 9780486649405
Publication Date: October 1, 1985
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unique March 28, 2006
mathwonk
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
i discovered a "new" method of solving constant coeff linear ode's this semester while teaching the course, No one I asked knew it and no books had it, but it was so natural as to have no chance of being really new. Still I searched and searched, Courant, Loomis and Sternberg, Edwards Penney, Coddington, Braun, Dieudonne, without success. then I found it here on pages 268-292.
i was impressed. this book was written back when clarity and completeness were the goal. then i began looking at the problems. it is very hard to give reasonable example problems using variation of parameters that cannot be solved better by guessing, but tenenbauim and pollard do it.
this is a classic introductory text. they even define differentials correctly, almost unheard of in an elementary book. all this for only 16 bucks!
The ODE Bible April 8, 2006
Hernadvolgyi Istvan (Hungary - Canada)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Examples upon examples, each barely different from the one before, worked out in extreme detail with all those obvious steps ...
So why is it a five? Because I cannot give a six! Because my teachers made simple things complicated and Tenenbaum and Pollard make it look so easy and smooth. Because anybody with some Calculus background can pick this book up and understand ordinary differential equations.
Old Papa's Advice Book April 25, 2006
J. fernandez
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The Best!!!
I was searching for books online and then I started reading all these comments ...and I realized very soon that it is not only me : everybody loves this friendly , sharp and beautiful book.
I am a Physicist. Every time a bump into a Bessel equation , or if I want to explain to a friend some ODE's I run into this magnificent book. Like when you go to Dad for a little advice.
A little dated but better than most new books on ODE's March 18, 2006
swamp thing
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Yeah, this is a little dated but it's still much better than the majority of text books on ODE's which often leave you feeling that you need to be math major to understand their text. No student in engineering that I met ever wanted to be a math major but most engineering students need a concise text written FOR the students who are not math majors, obviously. This is their text. I used this text when completing an undergrad in EE in the early 90's and then, like a fool, I sold it back to the bookstore. Little did I know that I would need it later while complting my PhD. If you are a student who is required to take Ordinary Differential Equations and this text is not the course text then by all means, if you have the money to spare, buy this one to support your other text. The authors state in their Introduction that they wrote this for you the student and in my opinion, it's true. Highly recommended.
Great book August 30, 2006
R. Rathje (Seattle, WA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Well priced, full of every possible ODE technique, and is perfect for engineers and scientists who are not full-fledged mathematicians. I especially appreciate the applications sections--instead of learning obscure technique after obscure technique, the reader can jump ahead to problems in mechanics, physics, etc. and grab the most useful of the bunch. This makes the material much more interesting. The only downside is that I fear I'll wear my copy out, since it's an 800 page paperback.
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