The author urges the reader to develop a “probabilistic perspective” towards many aspects that one comes across in life. Rational thought about randomness is far better than irrational emotional responses. Whenever we see things being reported, coincidences being sighted, it is better to start off by understanding the question “how unlikely is the event?”. One needs to figure ,” Out of How many ? question to answer the likelihood of the event .

-- Lloyd Trefethen

The book is about 800 pages long.It is a classic reference to solve ODEs and thus contains almost all the tricks of the trade to solve an ODE, be it analytically or numerically. The good thing about the book is that various methods are presented in the form of a “lesson-exercise-solution” format. Each lesson has good enough examples to give a clear idea of the technique used to solve the ODE.

“There is nothing so practical as a good theory” - Kurt Lewin

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