Introduction to Differential Equations

This book was originally authored by Jiří Lebl. This version of the textbook was forked by Trefor Bazett and adapted for use at the University of Victoria. Currently the vast majority of the book is the content from Jiří Lebl; for a more precise comparison please consult the respective github repositories for the original and the forked version of this text.

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During the writing of this book, Lebl was in part supported by NSF grant DMS-0900885 and DMS-1362337 while Bazett was in part supported by an LTSI OER grant at the University of Victoria.

The date is the main identifier of version. The major version / edition number is raised only if there have been substantial changes. Edition number started at 5, that is, version 5.0, as it was not kept track of before.

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