> And, if regard the material on differential equations as essentially nonsense, then good luck getting NSF grants for research in the subject Luckily, in this

> And, if regard the material on differential equations as essentially nonsense, then good luck getting NSF grants for research in the subject Luckily, in this world, NSF grant writers are not typically undergraduate students, and there's plenty of money flowing towards ODE research (here are some examples: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1600381&HistoricalAwards=false http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1600381&Hist... http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1408295&HistoricalAwards=false http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1408295&Hist... http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1318480&HistoricalAwards=false http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1318480&Hist... http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1505215&HistoricalAwards=false http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1505215&Hist... http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1418042&HistoricalAwards=false http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1418042&Hist... http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1346876&HistoricalAwards=false http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1346876&Hist...) and of course there is much more cash going into PDEs.