Principles of differential and integral equations : C. Corduneanu. 202 pages, diagrams, 6x9 in. Boston, Mass., Allyn & Bacon, 1971. Price, $16.95 (approx. £7·05).
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- Book ID
- 103087171
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1974
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 220 KB
- Volume
- 298
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-0032
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✦ Synopsis
Book Reviews authors allow (p. 209) that, " . . . it is often more convenient to study specific one-dimensional problems directly". Then Legendre's equation is treated as it stands, without first converting it to vector-matrix form. If it is not useful as a beginning text in o.d.e.'s, can the book be better used as a second text ? Yes, but with a reservation which is that a lot of mathematical power is generated and then hardly used. The power is used merely to obtain solutions: whereas it could be used and interpreted in areas where the necessity for it arose-normal mode behavior and state-space analysis of dynamical systems, uncoupling of dependent variables, Jordan normal form. Returning to Chap. 3, the authors develop the theory of root