Ordinary Differential Equations With Applications, Paperback by Chicone, Carmen, ISBN 1441921516, ISBN-13 9781441921512, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

Based on a one-year course taught by the author to graduates at the University of Missouri, this book provides a student-friendly account of some of the standard topics encountered in an introductory course of ordinary differential equations. In a second semester, these ideas can be expanded by introducing more advanced concepts and applications. A central theme in th is the use of Implicit Function Theorem, while the latter sections of th introduce the basic ideas of perturbation theory as applications of this Theorem. Th also contains material differing from standard treatments, for example, the Fiber Contraction Principle is used to prove the smoothness of functions that are obtained as fixed points of contractions. The ideas introduced in this section can be extended to infinite dimensions.