MATH 266AApplied Ordinary Differential Equations
Mathematics · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Spectral theory of regular boundary value problems and examples of singular Sturm/Liouville problems, related integral equations, phase/plane analysis of nonlinear equations.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 131A, 131B, 132, and 134 and 135, or 146.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MATH 266A
- MATH 131AAnalysis
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- MATH 131BAnalysis
- MATH 132Complex Analysis for Applications
- MATH 134Linear and Nonlinear Systems of Differential Equations
- MATH 135Ordinary Differential Equations
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
- MATH 146Methods of Applied Mathematics
6 direct requisites. Showing 25 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
MATH 266A
- MATH 266BApplied Partial Differential Equations
- MATH 266CApplied Partial Differential Equations
- MATH 266DApplied Differential Equations
- MATH 266EApplied Differential Equations
- MATH 274BPerturbation Methods
- MATH 274CPerturbation Methods
6 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 10 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.