A second course in elementary differential equations

We will follow the topics as in the textbook. We plan to cover all of Sections 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, and some of Sections 4, 8, 9. But the lectures will supplement the book’s exposition by giving more details on the standard mathematical methods that arise throughout the book’s development. Strogatz’s book emphasizes a modern perspective on ODEs, which is to treat them qualitatively and to understand the structure of their solutions geometrically. Moreover, the book motivates all of its theory with real examples taken from diverse areas of science. We begin