Customer Review: This book is awkwardly written. Quite summarised, the approach used for discussing the PDEs is not familiar - see other reviews. The book as a whole doesn't fill any gab, e.g. it is not a mathematical finance book, definitely not., see Shereve or Neftcie for an example. On the other hand it is not a... more info
so the math is for, like, juniors (US/ugrad) who have had a smattering of mechanics/E&M/etc. it's lots of tiny tricks (ahem i mean techniques) and neat-o examples. i thouroughly enjoy it. each section is some cool useful technique applied to a fairly original problem like eggs or bombs or... more info
Customer Review: This is probably the very best upper undergrad/graduate level textbook on applied partial differential equations. The book is written by leading academics with extensive experience in applied mathematics and industrial engineering problems, who worked and taught the subject for decades. What I... more info