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An ODE to a PDE: Glories of the KdV Equation. An Appreciation of the Equation on Its 100th Birthday!

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KdV ’95

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Though you may not believe me, I am normally of a shy and retiring disposition, modest to a fault, even timid at times. Therefore it is difficult for me to bring myself to make the following bold claim, but I must do so in the interest of the Higher Truth.

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Michiel Hazewinkel Hans W. Capel Eduard M. de Jager

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Kruskal, M.D. (1995). An ODE to a PDE: Glories of the KdV Equation. An Appreciation of the Equation on Its 100th Birthday!. In: Hazewinkel, M., Capel, H.W., de Jager, E.M. (eds) KdV ’95. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0017-5_7

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