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Math 5250-00 (Fall 2022) Ordinary Differential Equations I 

Course Description:

Ordinary differential equations has wide applications in all areas of natural science, social science, and is fundamental to other areas of mathematics, such as partial differential equations, geometry, and probability.  This is a year-long course intended for graduate and advanced undergraduate students who have taken standard undergraduate courses for differential equations, linear algebra, and complex analysis. Topics to be covered in the fall semester include:

1. Fundamental theory

2. Linear systems 

3. Local stability of nonlinear systems

4. Method of Lyapunov functions

Textbook: 

Sze-Bi Hsu: Ordinary Differential Equations with Applications, 2nd edition, World Scientific, 2013. 

References:

[1]. E. A. Coddington, N. Levinson: Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations, McGraw Hill, 1984.

[2]. R. Miller, A. N. Michel: Ordinary Differential Equations, Dover Publication, 1982.

Some Lecture Notes:

Here are some lecture notes: 9/15, 10/27, 11/01.

Grading:

Homework assignments: 20%. Click Here

Midterm Exam: 40% -- November 8 (Tuesday) from 1:20pm-4:20pm.

Final exam: 40% -- January 10 (Tuesday) from 1:20pm-4:20pm.