This introductory text on partial differential equations is the first to integrate modern and classical techniques for solving PDEs at a level suitable for undergraduates. The author successfully complements the classical topic of Fourier series with modern finite element methods. The result is an up-to-date, powerful, and flexible approach to solving PDEs, which both faculty and students will find refreshing, challenging, and rewarding. Linear algebra is a key component of the text, providing a framework both for computing solutions and for understanding the theoretical basis of the methods. Although techniques are emphasized over theory, the methods are presented in a mathematically sound fashion to develop a strong foundation for further study. Numerous exercises and examples involve meaningful experiments with realistic physical parameters, allowing students to use physical intuition to understand the qualitative features of the solutions.
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‘I love this book and look forward to using it as a text in the future. … It's the first truly modern approach that I've seen in a PDE text.’ Maeve L. McCarthy, MAA Online Book Review
‘The introduction of FEM to an undergraduate PDE text is wonderful. It's the first truly modern approach that I've seen in a PDE text.’ Maeve L. McCarthy, MAA Online Book Review
‘The introduction of FEM to an undergraduate PDE text is wonderful. It's the first truly modern approach that I've seen in a PDE text.’ Maeve L. McCarthy, MAA Online Book Review
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This introductory text on partial differential equations is the first to integrate modern and classical techniques for solving PDEs at a level suitable for undergraduates. Numerous exercises and examples involve meaningful experiments with realistic physical parameters, allowing students to use physical intuition to understand the qualitative features of the solutions.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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A fine introduction to PDE's,
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This review is from: Partial Differential Equations: Analytical and Numerical Methods (Hardcover)
This book will appeal to undergraduate math majors interested in both pure and applied math. Gockenbach covers the theoretical background at a level accessible to an undergrad student with basic engineering math (though a semester of advanced calculus and may help), and then extends into the numerical analysis approach. The book is very thorough and would be a nice text book or reference for those interested in the subject.
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Undergraduate PDE textbook,
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This review is from: Partial Differential Equations: Analytical and Numerical Methods (Hardcover)
It seems to be a very good PDE textbook for undergraduate math. students.
It has enough details and examples to take a student smoothly through the PDE course material and would definitely use this textbook for an introduction to PDE undergraduate course.
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Good text but a little dense,
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This review is from: Partial Differential Equations: Analytical and Numerical Methods (Hardcover)
Gockenbach guides the readers through the fundamental concepts in a rigorous and pleasing manner. However, sometimes he gets so deep into a derivation that the reader forgets the purpose of even doing it in the first place. The connection to linear algebra as a framework is very good, but you almost feel that the natural progression of material is interrupted time and again by the author's soujourns into tangential topics.
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