Differential Equations for Dummies

Linear Algebra is the most abstract, intimidating and demanding Maths specialism and D.Es can be a handful too. However, this text will aleviate all your fears. A joy to read but you still have to work at it.

Easy to understand

I am still working my way through this book so you might think that this is a premature review. However this book nails down what you need to know and examples with answers on differential equations, the book also has Java code for Euler's theorem which although published over fifteen years ago is still current today.

This resolved many of the incomprehensible parts of other textbooks. Very happy withthis book.

As a dummy, I wanted it to be simpler meaning less reading and more problem solving, I bought the book to refresh what I already know and have forgotten. It is handy, but it is not quick!

Pretty good. Learned a lot from it as a reference. Almost renders the textbook used in class useless. But lacks some explanations for clarity that took a while to figure out by myself. Needs the workbook. Actually, if I had to choose, I'd to get the workbook before this one.

New book. A couple of pages were not cut entirely, or stuck together somehow. 20 years ago nobody dared to sell this kind of quality, today you get 1 pound off the list price but no one tells you....

Now, having read the For Dummies book on Calculus (which was very, very good) I was very eager to get this one on Differential Equations. However, I am very disappointed with this book. Like others have written in their reviews, this book fails miserably as a book 'for dummies'. The author states many complicated looking equations one after the other with no explanations between them apart from 'and so' 'and:' 'So:' 'where n is an integer'. And really, minimal effort has been made to EXPLAIN what those equations are, what the notation means etc. I am quite surprised at the lack of simplification and/or explanation. Even for someone such as myself who has a degree in engineering but have real difficultly in some areas I wanted to brush up on and gain real understanding, I found that going through this book ONLY ADDS TO MY CONFUSION. On the whole I would not recommend this book to anyone. Extremely disappointed.

For Dummies is like the Bible or Quran you just have to MEMORIZE this book to pass differential equations. Unlike conventional textbooks where they give you mostly practice problems in 400 pages, For Dummies gives you step by step details in 400 pages.

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This book is not for dummies, this is for those who have advanced knowledge in calculus. It did not help me at all in understading differential equation.This is a "must not buy" item. It should be given a negative star rating. 😡😡😡😡

L'idea di base (libro di semplice lettura che presenta i metodi risolutivi per le equazioni differenziali ordinarie senza mettere in mezzo troppa teoria) è lodevole ma la realizzazione pessima. Troppi refusi sparsi per il libro. Metodi risolutivi esposti con grosse lacune nei casi critici (specie per il metodo dei coefficienti indeterminati nel caso dell'esponenziale e nel caso della polinomiale per equazioni di grado >2) e accompagnati da obbrobri (Da quando y=x è soluzione di y'''-y'=0?). La parte sui sistemi tratta solo il caso degli autovalori reali distinti. Non ci siamo. Libro comprato come riferimento per lezioni private sulle ode da tenere a studente di ingegneria ma alla fine sono ritornato pentito al buon vecchio e fedele amico Differential Equations and Their Applications di Braun.

微分方程式が何なのか分からない人でも読み易い本です。イメージも付けてくれるのでとても良く書かれた本だとおもいます。