A First Course in Ordinary Differential Equations

Chapter 1. Basic Concepts of Differential Equations.- Chapter 2. First-Order Differential Equations.- Chapter 3. Second-Order Differential Equations.- Chapter 4. Laplace Transforms.- Chapter 5. System of Linear Differential Equations.- Chapter 6. Power Series Solutions.- Chapter 7. Numerical Methods for Initial Value Problems.- Chapter 8. Shooting Methods for Linear Boundary.- Appendix A. Power Series.- Appendix B. Some elementary integration formulae.- Appendix C. Table of Laplace transforms.

MARTIN HERMANN is Professor of Numerical Mathematics at the Friedrich Schiller University (FSU) Jena (Germany). His activities and research interests are in the field of scientific computing and numerical analysis of nonlinear parameter-dependent ordinary differential equations (ODEs). He is also the founder of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Computing (1999), where scientists of different faculties at the FSU Jena work together in the fields of applied mathematics, computer sciences and applications. Since 2003, he has headed an international collaborative project with the Institute of Mathematics at the National Academy of Sciences Kiev (Ukraine), studying e.g. the sloshing of liquids in tanks. Since 2003, Dr. Hermann has been a curator at the Collegium Europaeum Jenense of the FSU Jena (CEJ) and the first chairman of the Friends of the CEJ. In addition to his professional activities, he volunteers in various organizations and associations. In German-speaking countries, his books Numerical Mathematics and Numerical Treatment of ODEs: Initial and Boundary Value Problems count among the standard works on numerical analysis. He has also produced over 70 articles for refereed journals.

MASOUD SARAVI is Professor of Mathematics at the Islamic Azad University (IAU), Nour Branch, Iran. His research interests include the numerical solution of ODEs, partial differential equations (PDEs) and integral equations, as well as differential algebraic equations (DAE) and spectral methods. In addition to publishing several papers with German colleagues, Dr. Saravi has published more than 15 successful titles on mathematics. The immense popularity of his books is deemed as a reflection of more than 20 years of educational experience, and a result of his accessible style of writing, as well as a broad coverage of well laid-out and easy-to-follow subjects. He is currently a board member at the IAU and is working together with the Numerical Analysis Group and the