--- product_id: 4813822 title: "Differential Equations and Linear Algebra (Gilbert Strang)" price: "£71.81" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/4813822-differential-equations-and-linear-algebra-gilbert-strang store_origin: GB region: Great Britain --- # Differential Equations and Linear Algebra (Gilbert Strang) **Price:** £71.81 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Differential Equations and Linear Algebra (Gilbert Strang) - **How much does it cost?** £71.81 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/4813822-differential-equations-and-linear-algebra-gilbert-strang) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Buy Differential Equations and Linear Algebra (Gilbert Strang) on desertcart.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders Review: Text aims to impart real understanding - I am a surgeon by profession and have been using this text in my "hobby", a serious self-study of mathematics and modern physics, in conjunction with MIT's Open Courseware and edx.org. I started off with just high school calculus from decades ago, and have made it to the mid-undergraduate maths covered in this volume. Although I'm giving it five stars, I have to add the caveat that at first it was hard to get started with this book. Professor Strang fills the text with all sorts of glimpses of more advanced topics that will be unfamiliar to new students. For example, some of the very first examples involve step and Dirac delta input, with a heavy emphasis on impulse response concepts to explain the time evolution of solutions. This really confused me at first. However, once I started to feel more familiar with ODEs, this presentation was very helpful to get me to "get it" at a deeper level than the mere methodology of finding and writing out solutions. Also, the book does not follow the OCW differential equations course (18.03) very closely, at least the version currently online, even though it supposedly grew out of a rewrite of the 18.03 syllabus. Hopefully MIT will put up an updated version of 18.03 at some point (though I do love Prof. Mattuck's lectures in the current one). I still have a decent chunk of the material ahead of me (matrix methods for ODE systems, eigenvalues, etc.) but I now find the book very easy to follow. Review: Not Dad's ODE Textbook - Not your father's ODE book. This is not the standard 'plug and chug' ODE book. In short, this book will kick your ass. You must use this in conjunction with the videos Strang made specifically for this book - the url is given in the book. If you methodically work your way through the text using the videos and all other available materials and you also utilize Arthur Mattuck's freely available ODE course on the open MIT courseware website then you will have an excellent foundation in ODEs. Also, I highly recommend all the MIT math courses with video lectures to anyone who wants to further their mathematics. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #123,233 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #15 in Differential Equations (Books) #91 in Mathematics (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (128) | | Dimensions | 8 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches | | Edition | UK ed. | | ISBN-10 | 0980232791 | | ISBN-13 | 978-0980232790 | | Item Weight | 2.28 pounds | | Language | English | | Print length | 510 pages | | Publication date | February 12, 2015 | | Publisher | Wellesley-Cambridge Press | ## Images ![Differential Equations and Linear Algebra (Gilbert Strang) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/619V8Md3wcL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Text aims to impart real understanding *by D***E on March 15, 2016* I am a surgeon by profession and have been using this text in my "hobby", a serious self-study of mathematics and modern physics, in conjunction with MIT's Open Courseware and edx.org. I started off with just high school calculus from decades ago, and have made it to the mid-undergraduate maths covered in this volume. Although I'm giving it five stars, I have to add the caveat that at first it was hard to get started with this book. Professor Strang fills the text with all sorts of glimpses of more advanced topics that will be unfamiliar to new students. For example, some of the very first examples involve step and Dirac delta input, with a heavy emphasis on impulse response concepts to explain the time evolution of solutions. This really confused me at first. However, once I started to feel more familiar with ODEs, this presentation was very helpful to get me to "get it" at a deeper level than the mere methodology of finding and writing out solutions. Also, the book does not follow the OCW differential equations course (18.03) very closely, at least the version currently online, even though it supposedly grew out of a rewrite of the 18.03 syllabus. Hopefully MIT will put up an updated version of 18.03 at some point (though I do love Prof. Mattuck's lectures in the current one). I still have a decent chunk of the material ahead of me (matrix methods for ODE systems, eigenvalues, etc.) but I now find the book very easy to follow. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Not Dad's ODE Textbook *by C***S on October 13, 2025* Not your father's ODE book. This is not the standard 'plug and chug' ODE book. In short, this book will kick your ass. You must use this in conjunction with the videos Strang made specifically for this book - the url is given in the book. If you methodically work your way through the text using the videos and all other available materials and you also utilize Arthur Mattuck's freely available ODE course on the open MIT courseware website then you will have an excellent foundation in ODEs. Also, I highly recommend all the MIT math courses with video lectures to anyone who wants to further their mathematics. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fantastic for Linear Algebra *by A***L on May 1, 2025* Really great reference for computer graphics work. Strang books are always on point. 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