目錄:Preface<br><br>Chapter 1 A Brief Description<br>1. Linear Differential Equations<br>2. The Need for Qualitative Analysis<br>3. Description and Terminology<br><br>Chapter 2 Existence and Uniqueness<br>1. Introduction<br>2. Existence and Uniqueness<br>3. Dependence on Initial Data and Parameters<br>4. Maximal Interval of Existence<br>5. Fixed Point Method<br><br>Chapter 3 Linear Differential Equations<br>1. Introduction<br>2. General Nonhomogeneous Linear Equations<br>3. Linear Equations with Constant Coefficients<br>4. Periodic Coefficients and Floquet Theory<br><br>Chapter 4 Autonomous Differential Equations in R2<br>1. Introduction<br>2. Linear Autonomous Equations in R2<br>3. Perturbations on Linear Equations in R2<br>4. An Application: A Simple Pendulum<br><br>Chapter 5 Stability<br>1. Introduction<br>2. Linear Differential Equations<br>3. Perturbations on Linear Equations<br>4. Liapunovs Method for Autonomous Equations<br><br>Chapter 6 Periodic Solutions<br>1. Introduction<br>2. Linear Differential Equations<br>3. Nonlinear Differential Equations<br><br>Chapter 7 Dynamical Systems<br>1. Introduction<br>2. Poincare-Bendixson Theorem in R2<br>3. Limit Cycles<br>4. An Application: Lotka-Volterra Equation<br><br>Chapter 8 Some New Equations<br>1. Introduction<br>2. Finite Delay Differential Equations<br>3. Infinite Delay Differential Equations<br>4. Integrodifferential Equations<br>5. Impulsive Differential Equations<br>6. Equations with Nonlocal Conditions<br>7. Impulsive Equations with Nonlocal Conditions<br>8. Abstract Differential Equations<br>Appendix<br>References<br>Index