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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      06 July 2010
      21 December 2006
      ISBN:
      9780511735141
      9780521824767
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511735141
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.864kg, 518 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Mathematics (general), Mathematics, Differential and Integral Equations, Dynamical Systems and Control Theory, Geometry and Topology
      Series:
      Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications (101)
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    Subjects:
    Mathematics (general), Mathematics, Differential and Integral Equations, Dynamical Systems and Control Theory, Geometry and Topology
    Series:
    Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications (101)
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    Methods from contact and symplectic geometry can be used to solve highly non-trivial nonlinear partial and ordinary differential equations without resorting to approximate numerical methods or algebraic computing software. This book explains how it's done. It combines the clarity and accessibility of an advanced textbook with the completeness of an encyclopedia. The basic ideas that Lie and Cartan developed at the end of the nineteenth century to transform solving a differential equation into a problem in geometry or algebra are here reworked in a novel and modern way. Differential equations are considered as a part of contact and symplectic geometry, so that all the machinery of Hodge-deRham calculus can be applied. In this way a wide class of equations can be tackled, including quasi-linear equations and Monge-Ampere equations (which play an important role in modern theoretical physics and meteorology).

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    'As a whole, (together with the many and very clearly worked out examples presented, which is one of the most important and highly appreciated merits of this book) the text is well written, very well organised and the exposition is very clear. So, I would allow myself to recommend it as a very useful stand-by introduction to the geometric view on linear and nonlinear differential equations.'

    Source: Journal of Geometry and Symmetry in Physics

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