MATH 418 - Partial Differential Equations

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This Week in MATH 418:

08 november

w10green.m: green's function from a fourier series

02 november

math495-spring10.pdf: integral equations, course announcement

Web Resources & Interest:

today

huygens' principle

History (& possible Future):

  week 01: introduction to PDEs

  week 02: first-order PDEs & characteristics

  week 03: the wave equation

  week 04: well-posedness & intro properties of the diffusion equation

  week 05: diffusion solutions

  week 06: laplace equation & eigenfunction expansion solution

  week 07: poisson formula & maximum principle

  week 08: midterm week

  week 09: integrals for laplace equation & green's functions

  week 10:

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  week 12:

  week 13: