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A differential equation is an equation involving one or more derivatives of an unknown function. If all derivatives are taken with respect to a single independent variable we call it an ordinary differential equation, whereas we have a partial differential equation when partial derivatives are present.
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Quarteroni, A., Saleri, F., Gervasio, P. (2010). Ordinary differential equations. In: Scientific Computing with MATLAB and Octave. Texts in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12430-3_7
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