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Title: Differential Equations With Mathematica by Martha L. Abell, James P. Braselton ISBN: 0-12-041539-9 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $48.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Book!
Comment: This book explains differential equations in a mathematical context rather than simply a "plug and chug" approach. What is particularly good is the section on partial differential equations and their applications. I have used the second edition extensively in my work, and the third edition is even better. The authors are to be congratulated for their clarity in writing.

Rating: 3
Summary: Good primer, but that's about it.
Comment: I was expecting more. The notebooks on CD-ROM were not particularly helpful. All I could do with them was to run the authors's examples. Could not modify them to do my own.

Unless you are a complete novice in the field of differential equations, don't buy this book!

Rating: 5
Summary: A very useful book
Comment: Abell and Braselton strike a nice balance between the analytical solution of differential equations by hand, and numerical solution by computer. Mathematica is used to simplify some of the details, but they teach how to do everything by hand, including programming runge-kutta solution methods, fourier series, and other topics that lazier authors might have skipped over.

Every chapter starts with basic definitions and builds to useful solution techniques. The book is packed with fully worked examples. My edition is a few years old and talks about the "newly released" Mathematica 3.0, but everything applies just as well to version 4.2.