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Mathematics to the rescue (retiring presidential address). (English) Zbl 1194.01037

Summary: This article, based on the 1997 AMS Retiring Presidential Address, describes some problems in partial differential equations that have interested the author for a long period of time and on which some progress has been made.

MSC:

01A60 History of mathematics in the 20th century
00A69 General applied mathematics
35-03 History of partial differential equations
47A40 Scattering theory of linear operators
76Mxx Basic methods in fluid mechanics
65M06 Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs
76H05 Transonic flows
76L05 Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics
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