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.

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Spanish Edition

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

Errors and Other Infelicities in the Fourth Edition

Paul Blanchard's course web page for Spring 2010

Robert L. Devaney's course web page for Fall 2016

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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