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An Appreciation of James Serrin

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I am particularly happy to have the opportunity of these proceedings to write a profile of one of my distinguished teachers, with whom I have also had the good fortune to collaborate for so many years, Professor James Serrin. Before entering into my recollection of these years of close association, I would first desire to mention the tribute that Professor Clifford Truesdell wrote in the volume of papers, Analysis and Continuum Mechanics, dedicated to James Serrin on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, published by Springer-Verlag, in gratitude for his many years of work as coeditor of the Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis.

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James Serrin’s publications

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Pisa, I-56127, Pisa, Italy

    Giuseppe Buttazzo

  2. Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara, I-44100, Ferrara, Italy

    Giovanni Paolo Galdi

  3. Department of Mathematics, University of Bologna, I-40126, Bologna, Italy

    Ermanno Lanconelli

  4. Department of Mathematics, University of Perugia, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Patrizia Pucci

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Pucci, P. (1998). An Appreciation of James Serrin. In: Buttazzo, G., Galdi, G.P., Lanconelli, E., Pucci, P. (eds) Nonlinear Analysis and Continuum Mechanics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2196-8_1

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