Applied Partial Differential Equations

Rating:
Summary: It's about time this book is back in print.
Review: Kudos to Dover for bringing this book back in print. We used
this book in a partial differential equations course at the
University of Pittsburgh a year ago. Unfortunately, the book
was out-of print then, and we had to use photocopies of the
original Harper & Row edition. (and the school bookstore charged
us about twice the $$ as the Dover edition costs.) The text
begins with the heat equation, and then progresses to more
complicated PDEs. The nice thing is that discrete methods are

introduced right from the start. I remember having a lot of fun
plugging discrete solutions of PDEs into Microsoft Excel and
seeing what the solutions looked like. The chapter on Fourier
Series is good, generalized Fourier series are covered, and
you will learn concepts such as pointwise and uniform convergen-
ce. Following that, there is a chapter on boundary-value
problems which covers Dirichlet, Neumann and Sturm-Liouville
problems. For both Cartesian and curvilinear coordinates. I
can't tell you what is in the later chapters, but if the rest
of the book is like the first three chapters, then it is a great
book, well worth the money.

Rating:
Summary: It's about time this book is back in print.
Review: Kudos to Dover for bringing this book back in print. We used
this book in a partial differential equations course at the
University of Pittsburgh a year ago. Unfortunately, the book
was out-of print then, and we had to use photocopies of the
original Harper & Row edition. (and the school bookstore charged
us about twice the $$ as the Dover edition costs.) The text
begins with the heat equation, and then progresses to more
complicated PDEs. The nice thing is that discrete methods are

introduced right from the start. I remember having a lot of fun
plugging discrete solutions of PDEs into Microsoft Excel and
seeing what the solutions looked like. The chapter on Fourier
Series is good, generalized Fourier series are covered, and
you will learn concepts such as pointwise and uniform convergen-
ce. Following that, there is a chapter on boundary-value
problems which covers Dirichlet, Neumann and Sturm-Liouville
problems. For both Cartesian and curvilinear coordinates. I
can't tell you what is in the later chapters, but if the rest
of the book is like the first three chapters, then it is a great
book, well worth the money.