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eigenvalues, open set, vector field, Liapunov function, asymptotically stable, eigenvectors, characteristic polynomial, inner product, phase portrait, linear map, complexification, normed vector space, semisimple, direct sum, diagonalizable, n-body problem, linear algebra, chain rule, ordinary differential equations, limit cycle

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Differential equations, dynamical systems, and linear algebra

By Morris W. Hirsch, Stephen Smale

Contributor Stephen Smale

Published by Academic Press, 1974

ISBN 0123495504, 9780123495501

358 pages

This reference serves as a reader-friendly guide to every basic tool and skill required in the mathematical library and helps mathematicians find resources in any format in the mathematics literature. It lists a wide range of standard texts, journals, review articles, newsgroups, and Internet and database tools for every major subfield in mathematics and details methods of access to primary literature sources of new research, applications, results, and techniques. Using the Mathematics Literature is the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource on mathematics literature in both print and electronic formats, presenting time-saving strategies for retrieval of the latest information.

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Using the Mathematics Literature

By Kristine K. Fowler

Contributor Kristine K. Fowler

Published by CRC Press, 2004

ISBN 0824750357, 9780824750350

389 pages