(offered in even years only)<br/>Background analysis. Gronwall's inequality. Initial value problems for systems: existence & extendability of solutions. Periodic solutions: first integrals, Morse theorem, attractors; Brouwer's fixed point theorem & degree theory; Floquet's theorem. Perturbation theory: Poincare-Lindstdt method for periodic solutions. -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Cathy Holmes ([email protected])