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Coddington, Earl Alexander was born on December 16, 1920 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Cyrus Alexander and Lillian (Dezarn) Coddington.
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"Written in an admirably cleancut and economical style." — Mathematical Reviews. This concise text offers undergraduates in mathematics and science a thorough and systematic first course in elementary differential equations. Presuming a knowledge of basic calculus, the book first reviews the mathematical essentials required to master the materials to be presented. The next four chapters take up linear equations, those of the first order and those with constant coefficients, variable coefficients, and regular singular points. The last two chapters address the existence and uniqueness of solutions to both first order equations and to systems and n-th order equations. Throughout the book, the author carries the theory far enough to include the statements and proofs of the simpler existence and uniqueness theorems. Dr. Coddington, who has taught at MIT, Princeton, and UCLA, has included many exercises designed to develop the student's technique in solving equations. He has also included problems (with answers) selected to sharpen understanding of the mathematical structure of the subject, and to introduce a variety of relevant topics not covered in the text, e.g. stability, equations with periodic coefficients, and boundary value problems.
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The prerequisite for the study of this book is a knowledge of matrices and the essentials of functions of a complex variable. It has been developed from courses given by the authors and probably contains more material than will ordinarily be covered in a one-year course. It is hoped that the book will be a useful text in the application of differential equations as well as for the pure mathematician.
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Coddington, Earl Alexander was born on December 16, 1920 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Cyrus Alexander and Lillian (Dezarn) Coddington.
Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins, 1948.
Instructor, Johns Hopkins, 1948-1949; instructor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1949-1950; C.L.E. Moore instructor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1950-1952; member of faculty, University of California at Los Angeles, 1952-1991; professor mathematics, University of California at Los Angeles, 1959-1991; chairman mathematics department, University of California at Los Angeles, 1968-1971. Fulbright lecturer U. Copenhagen, Denmark, 1955-1956, visiting professor, 1963-1964. Visiting associate professor Princeton, 1957-1958.
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Member American Mathematics Society (cooperative editor proceedings 1952-1955, cooperative editor translations 1957-1962), Mathematics Association American, American Association of University Professors, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Susan Klaber, November 17, 1945. Children: Alan Alexander, Robert Henry, Claire Helen.