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Equations that are neither elliptic nor parabolic do arise in geometry a good example is the equation used by nash to prove isometric. Partial differential equations department of mathematics. Partial differential equations pdes learning objectives 1 be able to distinguish between the 3 classes of 2nd order, linear pdes. A partial differential equation pde describes a relation between an unknown function and its. Analytic solutions of partial differential equations university of leeds.
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