Recommend me a differential equations book so I can teach myself

[Leros]

My differential equations professor sucks and the TA not much better, so I'm needing to teach myself the material.

Any suggestions for self teaching diff eqs books?

 

[chusteczka]

A professor and TA tend to appear below expectations when the student is not understanding the material. It is very easy to blame someone else for an individuals own difficulties. This is stated from personal experience.

Maybe you are just not "getting it".

Try asking the TA or professor for help.
Schaum's study guides work well in this situation.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: chusteczka
A professor and TA tend to appear below expectations when the student is not understanding the material. It is very easy to blame someone else for an individuals own difficulties. This is stated from personal experience.

Maybe you are just not "getting it".

Try asking the TA or professor for help.
Schaum's study guides work well in this situation.

The professor is a graduate student from Italy who has a very strong accent and speaks very broken english. Her vocabulary is very limited and she often says the wrong words. Same story with the TA, except she is from Spain. Its really hard to learn when you can't understand your teachers when they speak. The whole class is pretty much lost. We ask a lot of questions to try to clarify what she says but often we can't understand her answer either.

 

[TecHNooB]

When in doubt, take the natural log~

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: TecHNooB
When in doubt, take the natural log~

no, we take the "log... uhhhh how you say... of the natural"

 

[Juno]

seeking for math tutoring?

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: Juno
seeking for math tutoring?

I can teach myself just fine. I was just looking for material to supplement the textbook.

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: Leros
My differential equations professor sucks and the TA not much better, so I'm needing to teach myself the material.

Any suggestions for self teaching diff eqs books?

I'd imagine that your textbook would qualify.

 

[TecHNooB]

Are you in Calc 1? If so, this will give you a good start. Select MA165 as the course and look through the past exams and solutions. Should help a little.

http://www.math.purdue.edu/academic/courses/oldexams/

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: TecHNooB
Are you in Calc 1? If so, this will give you a good start. Select MA165 as the course and look through the past exams and solutions. Should help a little.

http://www.math.purdue.edu/academic/courses/oldexams/

You're thinking differential calculus, this is differential equations.

1) Differential and Integral Calculus
2) Sequences, Series, and Multivariable Calculus.
3) Differential Equations

 

[LordMorpheus]

I've got a DiffE book by Polking, Boggess, and Arnold.

It's been good to me.