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IN the six lectures before us, Prof. Prasad gives an interesting account of the part played by partial differential equations in dealing with vibratory phenomena, conduction of heat, gravitational attractions, electrostatics, magnetostatics, hydrodynamics, electrodynamics and the theory of electrons. Since D'Alembert's discovery in 1747 of the equation ÿ = c2yn arising from the motion of a vibrating string, the study of natural phenomena by mathematical physicists has led them to certain standard types of differential equations. The essential difficulty in finding the solution of such a differential equation lies in fitting it to specified boundary conditions. If we have an initial stage of heat given by
The Place of Partial Differential Equations in Mathematical Physics: Being a Course of Readership Lectures delivered at Patna University in 1921.
By Prof. Ganesh Prasad. Pp. iv + 49. (Patna: Patna University, 1924.) n.p.
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The Place of Partial Differential Equations in Mathematical Physics: Being a Course of Readership Lectures delivered at Patna University in 1921. Nature 115, 492 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115492b0
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