The computer as a teaching tool in ordinary differential equations

DOI10.1016/0898-1221(87)90178-7MaRDI QIDQ1095291zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. L. van Iwaarden

Publication date 1987

Published in Computers & Mathematics with Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0898-1221(87)90178-7

zbMATH Keywords

microcomputersnumerical methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to ordinary differential equations (34-04) Numerical analysis in abstract spaces (65J99)

Review text

This paper reflects some aspects of the author's experience as mathematical educator in the field of elementary differential equations (ODEs) at the University of Iowa. Due to the actual availability of microcomputers and their importance in the field of mathematics and its applications, the author claims that an elementary course in ODEs should contain not only the usual analytical techniques but also numerical methods for its solution. Here some elementary methods and real life problems are considered and more details about them can be seen in a textbook by the author published in 1985. It must be noted that the numerical methods referred to in this paper and in the textbook are so elementary that probably the students may have an unrealistic view of the numerical solution of ODEs.

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