18.152 Introduction to Partial Differential Equations, Fall 2004
Sea waves are solutions of complicated partial differential equations. (Image courtesy of
NASA.)
Highlights of this Course
Course Description
This course analyzes initial and boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations and the wave and heat equation in one space dimension. It also covers the Sturm-Liouville theory and eigenfunction expansions, as well as the Dirichlet problem for Laplace's operator and potential theory.