A First Course in Partial Differential Equations: with Complex Variables and Transform Methods (Dover Books on Mathematics)

I used this book for a yearlong course in PDE's when I was an undergraduate. I really wish I had had that course before quantum mechanics, as many of the difficult mathematics there would have been cake after weinberger. This book is fairly terse but quite complete. The text can be hard to follow by onesself and I often would refer to easier books on PDE's to get over certain humps. However, weinberger covers most of the material that any undergraduate would want and does it at a relatively high level. The problems are simply posed but are quite solvable and all have answers in the back of the book. My recollection is that the book has very few typos. The discussion is more mathematically rigourous than many more popular books but not so rigourous that it is painful for someone who views the mathematics as a tool. The book isorganized into about 90 sections, each corresponding roughly to a 50 minute lecture there are problem sets of approximately 10 problems for each of these. More recent topics touching on nonlinear PDEs and the like are not here as the book was written in 1966. If you want to get a very solid background in PDEs that will leave you in good stead for conquering books like Jackson's Electrodynamics or Schiff's quantum mechanics, this is a good book. If you want a simple introduction, for limited use go somewhere else like churchill or powers.

This is not so much a book as it is a published version of lecture notes: it might make a useful supplement to a textbook in a course, or a useful review text for someone who already knows the subject, but it is useless as a standalone textbook for a course or for someone studying the material on their own. The book dives into specific applications and problems without giving much theoretical background. Even for a student with a strong background in ODE's and some exposure to PDE's, this book will be difficult to follow and understand.

The book is essentially a walkthrough of solutions to specific problems. There is little discussion of the theoretical foundations behind the material, little motivation for any of the solutions, little discussion of why a particular line of attack was chosen for a specific problem.

The reader is left with the ability to carry out specific techniques but without any global picture of how to know which techniques are appropriate for which situations.

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