Subject: Discrete and Recurrence Equations	Code: ME039	

Semester	 Hours: C+S+L	Type	 Section	
8	2+2+0	optional	Mathematics	
8	2+2+0	optional	Mathematics-Computer Science	

Teaching Staff in Charge	Assoc.Prof. BEGE Antal, Ph.D., bege@math.ubbcluj.ro	
Aims	To present the basic problems of difference equation	
Content	1. Fibonacci numbers
2. Basic difference equations
3. Discrete mean value theorems
4. Linear equations
5. Linear sistems
6. Z transforms
7. Discrete dinamical system	
Selective References	1. AGARWAL, R. P.: Difference Equations and Inequalitiers, Marcel Dekker, 2000.
2. ANTON, GH.-RADU, GH.: Ecuatii ordinare cu diferente si aplicatii. Cluj Napoca: Ed. Albastra,  1998.
3. BEGE, A.-KASA, Z.: Matematica Discreta, Cluj Napoca: Univ. Babes-Bolyai, 2002.
4. ELAYDI, S. N. :  An Introduction to Difference Equations, Springer Verlag, 1996.
5. JERRI, A. J. : Linear Difference Equations with Discrete Transform Methods, Kluwer    Academic Publishers, 1996 .
6. MICKENS, R. E.: Difference Equations, Von Norstrand, 1990.	
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