Differential Equations

I had Ross differential equation in my undergraduate, and also graduate studies. I found it very simple written textbook in this area, and the beauty of the book is that the Author not only knows the subject, he also knows what he is talking about. I have seen lots of differential equations with pretty pictures, not even single of them is comparable with Ross book. Great book. I rate him 5 without any doubt.

I bought this book because of the book cover and the big font, looks like college books from 80s. Overall good read.

When I was an undergraduate student taking my first course in differential equations the class hat had a textbook that had a lot of pictures and almost no explaining of the material (i.e. the usual just try this method that works & the magic how did they get that step).... Thus, being a student that wanted to do well in the course I sought out a different book to read and found the Ross book. The Ross differential equations book is an excellent introduction to differential equations as it does answer why things work, but still keeps it at an introductory level that freshman / sophomore college students can grasp. Now, that I have completed 80 years of school and have been granted the opportunity to be an assistant professor I choose this book to teach from as it keep that balance: for the students who want to see why things work it gives an outline, but then on the next page for the students who just want to solve the problems it gives the generic process that can be followed to solve the problems. And, the other useful thing is LOTS OF FULLY WORKED EXAMPLES, and not just simple examples. This book starts with one simple example and then builds to a more challenging example and continues in that fashion. I guess the only thing I can complain about this book is there are no pretty pictures like all of the books have, but at least you can say if you read this book you will learn differential equations.. Tim

To the curious minds of today and tomorrow: The book by Ross was the textbook of the undergraduate ordinary differential equations course I took in my sophomore year in college. I also used this book in graduate school again as an intoduction to partial differential equations, Sturm-Liouville problems, Orthonormality of eigenfunctions etc. in an Advanced Mathematical Methods for _______ course. As such, I have to say that the breadth of this book is rather impressive. The prose is clear, and the presentation is to the point. There are quite a lot of worked out examples in the text, which is most amenable in a first course in differential equations. I was duly satisfied with it. I would have wished, however, that the book also contained a chapter on operator methods in solving differential equations. This technique is not only more elegant, but also much more effective in solving more sophisticated equations. Hence, the four star rating for the book. Overall, I believe this is a well composed primer on differential equations which contains much more substance that one initially anticipates. I, therefore, highly recommend this book. Cheers, Dr. E. ----------------------