Sturm-Liouville Problems: Theory and Numerical Implementation

Sturm-Liouville problems arise naturally in solving technical problems in engineering, physics, and more recently in biology and the social sciences. These problems lead to eigenvalue problems for ordinary and partial differential equations. Sturm-Liouville Problems: Theory and Numerical Implementation addresses, in a unified way, the key issues that must be faced in science and engineering applications when separation of variables, variational methods, or other considerations lead to Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problems and boundary value problems.

Ronald B. Guenther is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Oregon State University. His research interests include fluid mechanics and mathematically modelling deterministic systems and the ordinary and partial differential equations that arise from these models.

John W. Lee is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Oregon State University. His research interests include differential equations, especially oscillatory properties of problems of Sturm-Liouville type and related approximation theory, and integral equations.