Re: Books on ODE/PDE for self study.

Perhaps
PDEs: An Introduction
by W. Strauss

would be useful to you, because it covers introductory material on many
of the main topics in PDEs and each section has references to more
specific books for the topic being considered.

Otherwise you might try my current favourite, Partial Differential
Equations by Michael Taylor. Apparently it comes in three volumes but
the first one is basic theory.

It really depends what you are interested in knowing about

" fxx + A fxy + B fyy + C fx + D fy + E f = g(x,y)"

do you want to know the various tools and tricks for getting solutions,
or the various related physical problems, or the more fundamental
questions like existence and uniqueness of solutions, etc?

<jonabsoul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1127858685.573437.67330@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Two recommendations and a request:
>
> 15 years after college, I'm self-studying differential equations to get
> back up to speed.
>
> * RECOMMENDATIONS
>
> Schaum's "Differential Equations" by Bronson was excellent. It's all on
> ODEs. The theory is clear and the exercises well designed. This is NOT
> true of some Schaum books.
>
> Schaum's "Advanced Mathematics" by Spiegel is also good. It includes
> two chapters on ODEs and one on PDEs.
>
> * REQUEST
>
> I hear the Schaum book on PDEs is NOT good, unfortunately.
> Is there a Schaum-style book (meaning good for self study with lots of
> well-designed excercises) for PDEs? In particular, I'm interested in
> basic stuff, such as an exhaustive treatment of the linear 2-order,
> 2-variable PDE:
>
> fxx + A fxy + B fyy + C fx + D fy + E f = g(x,y)
>
> where f = f(x,y) and A--E are constants.
>

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