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Our initial foray into the vast mathematical continent that comprises partial differential equations will begin with some basic first-order equations. In applications, first-order partial differential equations are most commonly used to describe dynamical processes, and so time, t, is one of the independent variables.
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Olver, P.J. (2014). Linear and Nonlinear Waves. In: Introduction to Partial Differential Equations. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02099-0_2
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