Fundamentals of Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems (6th Edition)

This is my favorite text book, by far, for undergrad differential equations. I took differential equations in college awhile back and thought I needed a refresher before tackling vibration as an intro into quantum mechanics which is a hobby. Well, I needed more than a "refresher," and had to restart from the basics. I purchased a handful of the current undergrad texts and examined a few of the others. This text (along with its student solution manual) stood out as the perfect self-study book. Not only is it thorough and rigorous, but the applications to oscillation and other areas in physics were quite informative. By the time I completed this text, having solved most of the problems, not only had I learnt enough differential equation to comfortably move on to more advanced levels. And the thorough exposure to oscillation turned out to be quite valuable.

This was an excellent math book that I could follow along section by section in my Differential Equations class. I highly recommend it

As soon as I opened the book to start studying for my class the first few pages fell out. I'm glad I rented this and it wasn't that expensive.

This was the book required for my Differential Equations class 2 years ago now. I was probably one of the rare people who actually reads the chapters in books like these. It usually does a good job of explaining the process of solving the problems, if memory serves. Some chapter can get a bit concept heavy and hard to work through, but that's just the nature of the subject I'm sure. The modeling of heat flow chapter is one example of this, I must've read that chapter 2-3 times over and still couldn't manage to figure out where everything was coming from, but the few times that happened aside it was helpful. I also liked the little jokes added into some of the examples as notes "The driving force for oscillatory motion on a metal spring mattress is best left to the readers imagination, our editors say." All in all a good book.

Got book in mail quickly good deal

Very useful

What a bad book I get! It is really really awful!!! I can not understand why it happened on me !

I think this is an underrated book. I think this is a must have book if you are anyone but a pure mathematics student. It connects you to the physical side of differential equations and gives a good feel about why you need to know this subject. As an engineer this is what I look for in any book. Once you read this you can even get deeper into diff. equations from a more theoretical standpoint.