Do pure mathematicians actually use anything they learn in a typical differential equations course? I don't see how any of these methods of solving DEs is applicable to higher mathematics.

File: 513 KB, 2000x2068, 2000px-de_template.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Sat Jun 13 02:58:12 2015 No.7327090 [Reply] [Original]

Do pure mathematicians actually use anything they learn in a typical differential equations course?

I don't see how any of these methods of solving DEs is applicable to higher mathematics.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 13 03:05:19 2015 No.7327097 >doesn't see how DE's can arise in pure mathematics what

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 13 03:08:19 2015 No.7327100 >>7327097 Evidently I don't, that's why I made this thread.

Anonymous Sat Jun 13 03:15:49 2015 No.7327112

>>7327100
well i'm surprised. surely you can see how ODE's can occur in geometry? or in anything involving a vector field? obviously we use the "field" abstraction to represent various potentials in physics, but that's a consequence of the pure mathematical concept of a field. in any case they have lots of applications in topology, namely ricci flow.

Advanced search
Text to find
Subject [?]Search by post subject. Leave empty for any.
Username [?]Search for user name. Leave empty for any user name.
Tripcode [?]Search for tripcode. Leave empty for any.
Email [?]Search by email. Leave empty for any.
Filename [?]Search by image filename. Leave empty for any.
From Date [?]Enter what date to start searching from. Format is YYYY-MM-DD
To Date [?]Enter what date to start searching until. Format is YYYY-MM-DD
Image hash
Search in	All Posts OPs Only
Deleted posts	Show all posts Show only deleted posts Only show non-deleted posts
Internal posts	Show all posts Show only internal posts Show only archived posts
Order	New posts first Old posts first
Capcode	All Posts Only by Users Only by Mods Only by Admins Only by Developers
Results	Posts Threads
Action	[ Simple ]

/sci/ - Science & Math