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Let us begin by delineating our field of study. A differential equation is an equation that relates the derivatives of a (scalar) function depending on one or more variables.
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Olver, P.J. (2014). What Are Partial Differential Equations?. In: Introduction to Partial Differential Equations. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02099-0_1
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