Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association
Volume 10 Issue 4, July 1971
6 – 10
Contemporary Mathematics and its Mathematicians
Dr. W. J. Bruce (ed.)
The branch of mathematics called Partial Differential Equations deals, as its title indicates, with the study of equations involving a function of more than one variable and several of its derivatives. The main problem usually considered is to find solutions of these equations which satisfy specific conditions which, in turn, depend on the special problem under consideration. Often, one also investigates the properties of the solutions of such equations, without actually finding them.
