Differential Equations Workbook For Dummies

Good information, and it is accurate to what I was learning in class.

mathematically involving

This workbook helped me work out problems combined with the manual of same so that I understood the concept and truly lifted the burden of this class for me. It is most excellent and would always recommend to anyone in this

I did a course in differential equations a long time ago and this book brought home the need for me to go over the ground again. I found it very useful, although the exercises were a little repetitive. This was not a problem for me. I'd do the worked example in MathType and then simply use Copy & Paste to work through the variations. I don't think I'd have been happy doing these with pencil and paper. I worked through the whole book. I found typos from a very early point and checking these reviews, I found many other complaints about this. I tried to make a virtue out of necessity and saw it as a challenge to identify the typos as part of my learning (or rather, relearning) process. So the typos were not a major distraction for me, but their frequency speaks ill of the Dummies editorial checking process.

I've been picking up some books to help me refresh and/or learn math I never got when in school. Very good stuff for designing robotic control systems an d helping understand the necessary math.

The teaching method varies among teachers and differs greatly with the delivery methods such as Blackboard, Peasrson Learning platform, etc. This book maybe used as supplemental addition to these delivery method, but, to the first time students this book maybe more a source of confusion because of different notations, terms, and methods of attacking the material at hand. If you have had some exposure this book may be of some use. But, in conjunction with the text book being use, I believe it can be more of source of confusion than help. I guess if you are taking this course from the writer of this Dummy series book, this book probably would be more helpful. However, for majority of students this book, I am afraid is not that much of help, at least until basic level of proficiency has been reached in differential equation. I also looked at Schaum's differential equation book, that has similar short coming. You are better off just following the book that your class is using.

I read the first page of this book and finally understood Diffy Qs. Wish I had this when I was taking going for my undergraduate degree.

Good Practice, great price. This book was a great help in my DiffEQ class. It was better than the required textbook at a fraction of the cost.

Great for practice and understanding the concepts. If I had to choose I'd get this one before the "Differential Equations for Dummies" textbook. It's good to have them both, though.

Good for worked examples and mastering the basics.

Nice book to practice on DEs.

OK

Standard fayre as far as For Dummies books go, and it's well laid out. HOWEVER...there are far too many significant mistakes in this book. Mistakes that make the limited instructions extremely confusing to the point where it is actually dangerous to learn from. Some errors are ready to spot (so why didn't the publishers notice??) but some will have you tearing your hair out wondering where you've gone wrong! Well, chances are you haven't!! Unbelievable...