This project, originally funded by two grants from the National Science Foundation, promotes the use of ideas from the modern theory of dynamical systems in the traditional sophomore-level course in differential equations. Qualitative, analytic, and numerical approaches are stressed throughout the course. We have written a textbook published by Brooks/Cole that supports our approach, and occasionally we conduct workshops at various sites around the country.

Please note:

Upcoming Workshops and Talks

• None currently scheduled.

About the text

Table of Contents

Faculty Support and Ancillary Material

How to obtain instructor's manual, student solutions manual, desk copies, etc.

Spanish Edition

Who are we?

Instructor's On-line Guide to the Third Edition (under construction)

Bugs and Other Infelicities in version 2 of DETools (distributed with the third edition of book)

Instructor's On-line Guide to the Second Edition

Errors and Other Infelicities in the Second Edition

Sample syllabi using the text

Paul Blanchard's course web page for Spring 2003 (second edition)

• final version of course web page for Spring 2002 (last use of first edition)

Robert L. Devaney's course web page for Spring 2007

Robert L. Devaney's Honors course web page for Fall 2003

Selected animations used in the BU Differential Equations course.

Selected Articles on Teaching Differential Equations

• Teaching Differential Equations With a Dynamical Systems Viewpoint
  By Paul Blanchard. College Mathematics Journal, Volume 25, no. 5, November, 1994, pp. 385-395

• Bifurcations, equilibria, and the phase line: modern topics in differential equations courses By Robert L. Devaney

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