Applied Partial Differential Equations (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

Logan, J. David

ISBN 10: 0387984399 / ISBN 13: 9780387984391

Published by Springer, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Applied Partial Differential Equations (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387984399
• ISBN 13: 9780387984391
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

This textbook is for the standard, one-semester, junior-senior course that often goes by the title "Elementary Partial Differential Equations" or "Boundary Value Problems". The audience consists of students in mathematics, engineering, and the physical sciences. The topics include derivations of some of the standard equations of mathematical physics (e.g., the heat equation, the wave equation, and Laplace's equation) and methods for solving those equations on bounded and unbounded domains (including transform methods and eigenfunction expansions). Prerequisites include multivariable calculus and post- calculus differential equations course. The text differs from other texts in that it is a brief treatment (about 200 pages); yet it provides coverage of the main topics usually studied in the standard course as well as an introduction to using computer algebra packages to solve and understand partial differential equations. The writing has an engineering and science style to it rather than a traditional, mathematical, theorem-proof format. The exercises encourage students to think about the concepts and derivations. The student who reads this book carefully and solves most of the exercises will have a sound enough knowledge base to continue with a second-year partial differential equations course where careful proofs are constructed or upper division courses in science and in egineering where detailed applications of partial differential equations are introduced.

Review

From the reviews of the second edition:

"This second edition of the short undergraduate text provides a fist course in PDE aimed at students in mathematics, engineering and the sciences. The material is standard ... . Strong emphasis is put on modeling and applications throughout; the main text is supplied with many examples and exercises." (R. Steinbauer, Monatshefte für Mathematik, Vol. 150 (4), 2007)

"This book contains an elementary introduction of partial differential equations to undergraduate students in mathematics, engineering, and physical sciences. ... This is a unique book in the sense that it provides a coverage of the main topics of the subject in a concise style which is accessible to science and engineering students. ... Reading this book and solving the problems, the students will have a solid base for a course in partial differential equations ... ." (Tibor Krisztin, Acta Scientiarum Mathematicarum, Vol. 74, 2008)