Schaum's Outline of Differential Equations 2nd Edition

hard to complain about this piece of work. It doesn't explain where the algorithm for matrix exponential comes from and that would have been helpful. Whenever i need math problems with answers i always go straight to schaums and this one is no exception

This is a most definitely helpful guide for understanding differential equations in many different ways. It is laid out in an easy-to-read and easy-to-understand guide that will make understanding differential equations a breeze. Examples, exercises, and problem solutions with problems worked out in detail make this a go-to guide for successfully understanding the principles and methods of solving such equations.

Normal overpriced textbook. Needed for class. Nothing special.

Excellent !

Good problems

This book is a must have if you are taking, or are thinking about taking, a class on differential equations. I am currently taking a graduate course on advanced math and this book has been a tremendous help. Each chapter is well defined, in what it covers, and has the exact information I was looking for each time.You start off with a little theory and some general rules for each type of solution, then it's right to the examples. To be honest, the examples are why I bought the book. Theory is good, but you have to see the theory in use to be able to apply it to whatever you are doing.I always have this book by my side when doing problems, or just reviewing my class notes. My only complaint, which is really to stong of a word to use, is the breadth of each subject covered. I did find myself, on occasion, wishing there were more problems, or the theory was a little more in depth. But this in no way detracted from the usefullness of the book. If I really needed more information I would just search for "Schaum" followed by whatever I needed, and buy a new book.

AS I've said in my other Diff EQ textbook reviews, it is astonishing to me just how weak the textbooks are in terms of helping those of us who don't just "get it" right away. If someone could write a textbook that accomplished that goal, it would be world changing. Don't waste your cash, go bother the prof until they pass you out of sympathy.

I like this book a lot more than my Diff. Eq. textbook, mostly because it focuses on application rather than abstraction. Bronson does a good job of explaining the mechanisms and applications of DE, while cutting through most of the kludgy rhetoric and laborious explanations of my course textbook. The examples are straight-forward without too much of a stretch to see how they work, while the explanations are quick and to-the-point.I would thoroughly recommend buying the Schaum's Easy Outline for DE in addition to this book, since I find the Easy Outline to be easier to pick up quickly on a first read. The Easy Outline is essentially the Outline, boiled down to the bare essentials and re-written to be easier to absorb quickly. The regular outline (this book) does a good job of filling in the gaps and providing more examples on top of the Easy Outilne.My copy (2nd edition, current) shows an original copyright date of 1973, with another in 1994 to reflect the Library of Congress title update (the title change was minute, and not worth repeating). I was surprised by the extreme similarity between some examples in the Ouline versus those in my course textbook (carrying a 2003 copyright in its 7th edition). It makes you wonder if this is the reference for the textbook writers!My only criticism of this book is that it is not a textbook. If it were, I wouldn't have to spend four times as much on another book which I use for not much more than the exercises. Oh, and the Outline HAS plenty of problems, both solved and not.