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Partial Differential Equations: Analytical and Numerical Methods

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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.

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.

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.

I have not read this book but my math professor wrote it and he is a very good teacher. I reccomend this book on those grounds.