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MATH 5525 - Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Ordinary differential equations, solution of linear systems, qualitative/numerical methods for nonlinear systems. Linear algebra background, fundamental matrix solutions, variation of parameters, existence/uniqueness theorems, phase space. Rest points, their stability. Periodic orbits, Poincare-Bendixson theory, strange attractors. prereq: [2243 or 2373 or 2573], [2283 or 2574 or 3283]