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...First order partial differential equations the profound study of nature is most fertile source mathematical discover ies joseph fourier introduction we begin our with rst before doing so need to dene a few terms recall see appendix on that an n th ordinary equation for unknown function y x expresses relationship between and its derivatives one could write this generally as f here represents nth derivative furthermore initial value problem consists plus values at particular independent variable say yn if conditions are instead provided more than indepen dent then have boundary unknownfunctionisafunctionofseveralvariables thenthederiva tives resulting differen tial thus u general might take form since notation can get cumbersome there different ways be written d second in forms uxx xxu dxu uxy xyu dydxu note assuming has continuous according clairaut s theorem alexis claude mixed same examples some treated book shown table however being highest these chapter will focus given by ut ux uux...