THIS book is the outgrowth of a lengthy experience in training first-year electrical engineering students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The earlier chapters discuss complex numbers, ...

Ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and difference equations serve as complementary tools in the mathematical modelling of processes evolving in continuous and discrete time respectively. Together ...

Ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are also called initial value problems because a time zero value for each first-order differential equation is needed. The following is an example of a ...

Differential equations are commonly used to model dynamical deterministic systems in applications. When statistical parameter estimation is required to calibrate theoretical models to data, classical ...

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Jun., 1990), pp. 704-735 (32 pages) Ordinary differential equations can be recast into a nonlinear canonical form called an S-system. Evidence for ...