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 enlarge | Author: Stanley J. Farlow
Publisher: Dover Publications
Category: Book
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Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 16760
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Pages: 414
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1
ISBN: 048667620X
Dewey Decimal Number: 515.353
EAN: 9780486676203
Publication Date: September 1, 1993
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 AMAZING!! March 1, 2001
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
the subject of PDE's looks vague and scary for most students, even for those with math background.This book is probably the best education, self-study material available for the subject.It covers all the important aspects with very clear explanations .I bought it as a secondary book for my PDE course based on the amazon's reviews and it was really a very nice experience. Worth more than... and highly recommended
The best PDE book out there! June 25, 2002
Nicholas E. Athanas (Ratrace, IL)
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
The strength of this book is its organization. It is all you need to understand and use PDEs. Dont waste your money on other books. This is the best intro there is...
Very Good Book February 1, 2006
Josef D. Allen
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
The Book has easy to read sections. What I like about the book most is that it quizzes you after each important subject is read.
Puddlejumper September 28, 2006
Eleanor Callister (South Carolina)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a very well written textbook. However, it would help if you have some background in Fourier series and DFS (Discrete Fourier Series). It is important that you understand that in a linear system you can use superposition. These are linear differential equations that are talked about in this book so the idea of superposition is used a great deal in the process of solving PDE's. This is not really explained forcefully enough in the text. If you have these as background the text should be a breeze. I really like the idea of 47 short lessons. He is right. You can do about one lesson a day. Therefore, you should be able to finish the entire book in about 47 days. I have found that most math textbooks are written in a puzzle format so that you must have a paper and pencil handy to figure out exactly what the author is saying. While this is still true of this textbook, in most lessons the author works through a specific example instead of giving general equations like many math texts do. In one lesson, the solution is found graphically. It took me a while to understand what he was trying to do. The first 300 pages of the book are on analytical solutions and then the rest of the book is on numerical solutions. He also has a chapter on the benefits of each method, analytical versus numerical. I think the numerical methods are more useful as they are more general, and will solve more types of PDE's. I really studied this book as background for a book on the finite element method and I believe I accomplished what I wanted.
Simply Great! June 27, 2007
Gopinath Venkatesan (Norman, Oklahoma)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book is simple, interesting to read, just like a story book or a news article, and can be used as an introductory textbook for PDEs.
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