Solving polynomial differential equations by transforming them to linear functional-differential equations

We present a new approach to solving polynomial ordinary differential equations by transforming them to linear functional equations and then solving the linear functional equations. We will focus most of our attention upon the first-order Abel differential equation with two nonlinear terms in order to demonstrate in as much detail as possible the computations necessary for a complete solution. We mention in our section on further developments that the basic transformation idea can be generalized to apply to differential equations of any order, to a system of ordinary differential equations without first differentially eliminating the multiple dependent variables, and even to partial differential equations.