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On Some Recent Methods for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

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We wish to present here some aspects of a few general methods that have been introduced recently in order to solve nonlinear partial differential equations and related problems in nonlinear analysis.

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Lions, PL. (1995). On Some Recent Methods for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations. In: Chatterji, S.D. (eds) Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9078-6_12

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