國立清華大學數學系

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Math 5250-00 (Fall 2025) Ordinary Differential Equations I 


Instructor: 陳國璋 Kuo-Chang Chen

Hours and days: R5R6R7

Classroom: 綜三 115

Teaching assistant: 劉振宏

Office: 綜三 609

Phone Number: (03) 5715131 Ext: 33067

Office Hours: T8F8

Email: kchen@math.nthu.edu.tw

 

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

 

Syllabus: 

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Textbook: 

Sze-Bi Hsu, Kuo-Chang Chen: Ordinary Differential Equations with Applications, 3rd edition, World Scientific, 2022. 

 

References:

[1] Vladimir I. Arnold: Ordinary Differential Equations, Universitext, Springer, 1992.

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

Grading:

Homework assignments: (20%) Click Here

Midterm Exam: (40%) October 30 (Thursday) from 1:20pm-4:20pm.

Final exam: (40%) December 18 (Thursday) from 1:20pm-4:20pm.