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Contents
Catalog Information
Title
Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations.
Credit Hours
3
Prerequisite
Description
This course is designed to provide students with a rigorous treatment of the theory of differential equations.
Desired Learning Outcomes
Prerequisites
Minimal learning outcomes
- Solutions to ordinary differential equations
- Existence of solutions
- Uniqueness of solutions
- Continuation of solutions
- Gronwall’s inequality
- Dependence on parameters
- Contraction mapping principle
- Linear differential equations
- Linear systems with constant coefficients
- Jordan Normal Form
- Fundamental solutions
- Variation of constants formula
- Floquet Theory for periodic solutions
- Stability and instability
- Stability and asymptotic stability
- Lyapunov functions
- Bifurcations
- Poincare-Bendixson Theory
- Invariant sets
- Omega limit sets
- Limit cycles
Additional topics
These are at the instructor's discretion as time allows examples are: Stability of nonautonomous equations, Fredholm alternative, normal forms, Hamiltonian dynamics, control theory, stable manifold theorem, and center manifold theorem.
Courses for which this course is prerequisite
Math 635