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Partial Differential Equations: Methods and Applications (2nd Edition)

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This is a modern PDE book. Its content is divided in three big sections. The first section presents specific equations with their analytic solutions. Second section provides a brief review of functional analysis and calculus on Banach spaces to study linear PDE in an abstract framework.
The last section studies nonlinear PDE. This a good textbook for a graduate course and it competes with Evan's and Renady's books. The only weak point is the omission of numerical methods and its high price.

I feel bad leaving a bad review for such a nice book on PDE's with tons of good content, but the binding of this book is horrible. Even after owning this book for just a couple months, pages started falling out left and right. This problem is not unique to my copy of this book as almost all students in my course had similar problems with pages coming out.

The printing in the book was very weak in many places, which made
me return the book. I asked for the book to be exchanged for a
new copy, but instead I got a refund. I never got an explanation
why I didn't got a new copy of the book. In fact, there was no
communication at all.

In conclusion: Unacceptable product and bad service.