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Topic: Differential Equations

Why should programmers learn about DiffEq
- Law of Large Numbers
What are differential equations?
- When you know the rate of change
- EigenVectors & EigenValues
- What is Jacobian What is Jacobian? | The right way of thinking derivatives and integrals
Special cases
- Partial Differential Equations
- Ordinary Differential Equations
Why solvers are important
- Numerical Stability at larger step sizes
- Example: https://medium.com/@pukumarathe/eulers-method-and-runge-kutta-4th-order-method-in-python-b4a0068a8ebe
Fun Examples
- Predator-Prey relationships in scipy
  - https://scientific-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notebooks_rst/3_Ordinary_Differential_Equations/02_Examples/Lotka_Volterra_model.html
- Physics Engines for games
  - https://youtu.be/52n2qKgwW_Q
- PageRank
  - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08973.pdf

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