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Every beginning mathematician eager to prove himself should form time to time study the serious thinking of some seminal papers of the past. This will give both a perspective on and a relief from his daily labour with the very latest developments in his field. For anyone interested in the analysis of partial differential equations, the work of Fritz John is especially rewarding. He wrote by now classical papers in convexity, illposed problems, the numerical treatment of partial differential equations, quasi-isometry and blow-up in nonlinear wave propagation.
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Gårding, L. (1985). Foreword. In: Moser, J. (eds) Fritz John. Contemporary Mathematicians. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5406-5_2
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