Reviews for Partial differential equations

The average rating for Partial differential equations based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-07-16 00:00:00 Noriyuki Shirahata The bible of PDE's. If you're not familiar with his notation he introduces it in the beginning of the text. This work is readable and understandable which is often rare for mathematics at this level. Evans is thorough in his covering of nearly the breadth of PDE's up to the point of publication. Enough for a graduate level sequence in the subject, and perhaps then some. A sufficient mastery of multivariate calculus and ordinary differential equations is necessary to tackle this work. Some previous exposure to partial differential equations would be beneficial.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-05-26 00:00:00 Richard Peal Annoying: conventionally unconventional. I've been looking for a good introduction; this is not that. (Is it a coincidence that the best popularisers - Paglia, Greer, Moran - are all highly problematic?) Chanter manages to make exciting parts of feminism - e.g. Calhoun's post-deconstruction stuff - sound dull, dense and theoretically empty, as if it were the same kind of navel-gazing theorism as the hyperinflated Althusserian-Foucauldian stuff. (To be fair, any overview has to cover French theory, because that's what our counter-gender people have actually been up to for decades. But not blind acceptance.) You get the impression, here, that progress in feminist thought consists in calling your predecessors bigoted - JS Mill calls out the Victorians, Okin calls out JS Mill, Butler calls out Okin, Wittig calls out Butler, and then Calhoun calls Wittig heteronormative.