On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 21:43, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote:

> As to the project, I suggest you pick some algorithm (that could be
> used to solve lots of differential equations) that you could implement
> and test. One example is variation of constants:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_variation_of_parameters
>
> And there are others. Then you would build your project around such
> algorithm, e.g. it would be the core part of it and you would make
> sure it works and then implement some special cases.

Joel S. Cohen's _Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation: Elementary
Algorithms_ describes an algorithm along these lines and gives
references which should help implement the special cases:

  http://web.cs.du.edu/~jscohen/ElementaryAlgorithms/

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco

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