Guy Boillat, Constantin M. Dafermos, Peter D. Lax, Tai-Ping Liu

Recent Mathematical Methods in Nonlinear Wave Propagation (eBook, PDF)

Lectures given at the 1st Session of the Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo (C.I.M.E.), held in Montecatini Terme, Italy, May 23-31, 1994
Redaktion: Ruggeri, Tommaso

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

These lecture notes of the courses presented at the first CIME session 1994 by leading scientists present the state of the art in recent mathematical methods in Nonlinear Wave Propagation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783540495659
• Artikelnr.: 53138834

Autorenporträt

A renowned mathematician who considers himself both applied and theoretical in his approach, Peter D. Lax has spent most of his professional career at NYU, making significant contributions to both mathematics and computing. He has written several important published works and has received numerous honors including the National Medal of Science, the Lester R. Ford Award, the Chauvenet Prize, the Semmelweis Medal, the Wiener Prize, and the Wolf Prize. Several students he has mentored have become leaders in their fields.

Inhaltsangabe

Non linear hyperbolic fields and waves.- Entropy and the stability of classical solutions of hyperbolic systems of conservation laws.- Outline of a theory of the KdV equation.- Nonlinear hyperbolic-dissipative partial differential equations.