Differential Equations with Applications and Historical Notes (Textbooks in Mathematics) 3rd Edition

Without a doubt, George Simmons is a top rated, and down to earth, author. Indeed, you shall greatly benefit from his pedagogy, or teaching style. In fact, this is the second textbook that I have owned via this author; the first was his Calculus and Analytic Geometry text from the late 1990s.

All as good as promissed

I looked at a lot of ode books. This one rates near the top. Very happy to read it.

If you already have studied differential equations, this book is a fairly easy read, being fairly comprehensive and well written. Some of the topics are glossed over in one or two pages...and in the case of the Bernoulli Equations, in just a couple paragraphs.The problem sets are sufficiently broad to develop a good feel for the methods.My biggest 'complaint' is that this is not a hard cover, as the pages do not stay open by themselves. But I know it was a soft cover when I bought it.If you have never studied DiffEq before, I would suggest you look elsewhere for an introductor text...the excellent book by Dennis Zill would be the first place I would start.

I guess its supposed to be in acceptable condition, but when the cover is falling off, thats barely acceptable. Writing this review more to make sure I am not charged for the book when i return it falling apart, like i received it.

Book content and printing is ok, so I will not return this as I plan to read itbut this book is damaged by bad design, it looks like paper was glued togetherin the hope it will be functional but it is not ... It will be destroyed once you open the book.So for the price of near $100 the quality is too low. So content 5+, quality of hb 1-.Btw I don't think it was damaged by shipping (book was just dropped inside without any wrapper).

Most comprehensive textbook on differential equations

Exactly what I needed.