Elementary differential equations
by William E. Boyce, Richard C. Diprima · first published 1969
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on “Mathematician's anger over his unread 500-page proof” ↗Elementary Differential Equations by Boyce and DiPrima I'm not sure I'd say that it made me significantly better at math, but I keep coming back to it time and again, and usually via very different paths.
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