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Prospects for a central theory of partial differential equations

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three episodes in the history of equation-solving are finding zeros of polynomials, solution of ordinary differential equations, and solutions of partial differential equations. The first two episodes went through a number of phases before reaching a rather satisfactory state. That the third episode might develop similarly is the topic of this note.

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Neuberger, J.W. Prospects for a central theory of partial differential equations. The Mathematical Intelligencer 27, 47–55 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02985839

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