Student Solutions Manual to accompany Boyce Elementary Differential Equations 8th Edition and Elementary Differential Equations w/ Boundary Value Problems 8th Edition

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Summary: Very insufficient....
Review: I am an engineering student and currently in differential equations. I bought this solutions manual to accompany the text book (which I also strongly don't recommend) and wish I had returned it to the bookstore in time. Unforntuately, I am stuck with it now. This solutions manual does not explain anything thoroughly. Any questions with problems that I have, or anyone else in my class for that matter, are almost always skipped over as if the answer to the question is blatantly obvious. You'll probably have much better luck researching the answers to your questions on the internet or just asking your professor to explain it, because this solutions manual is next to no help at all.

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Summary: Horrible...
Review: Not only is this book a poor choice to learn from, but it also is not suitable as a reference for Differential Equations. As a student who is used to learning math material primarily by reading the book, I have found this textbook far below average. Each chapter begins with a brief explanation that consists mostly of formal proofs. I don't mind having formal proofs if there is also intuitive explanations, which this book lacks. For the most part, the authors of the book don't seem too eager to actually have the student understand the material. The examples are a little more helpful but usually the authors skip steps or don't even solve the problem the whole way threw almost as if the they want the reader to try to figure EVERYTHING out on his or her own. This, in my opinion, is not the best way to teach this math.