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Graduate students receive a stimulating introduction to analytical approximation techniques for solving differential equations in this text, which introduces a series of interesting and scientifically significant problems, indicates useful solutions, and supplies a guide to further reading. Intermediate calculus and basic grasp of ordinary differential equations are prerequisites.
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