Textbook

Partial Differential Equations: An Introduction, 2nd Edition

ISBN: 978-0-470-05456-7

Hardcover

464 pages

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Numerous exercises, varying in difficulty.
Frequent mention of wave propagation, heat and diffusion, electrostatics, and quantum mechanics puts PDE into context, which is especially important for engineering and science majors.
Rational organization of material: from science to mathematics, from one dimension to multidimensions, from full-line to half-line to finite interval, etc.
Companion solutions manual allows students to see detailed worked out solutions.
Introduction to nonlinear PDEs (Chapter 14) provides the student with a taste of the most important problems studied today by researchers in mathematics and science.
Provides appropriate introduction to numerical analysis (Chapter 8).
Organization gives instructors flexibility in chapter coverage; for example, one can go from Chapter 6 to Chapters 7 and 12 (Green’s functions and distributions), Chapters 13 and 14 (science and nonlinear PDEs), Chapter 8 (numerical), Chapter 9 (waves), or to Chapter 10 (disks, spheres).