Christian Constanda, MS, PhD, DSc, is the Charles W. Oliphant Endowed Chair in Mathematical Sciences and director of the Center for Boundary Integral Methods at the University of Tulsa. He is also an emeritus professor at the University of Strathclyde and chairman of the International Consortium on Integral Methods in Science and Engineering. He is the author/editor of more than 30 books and more than 150 journal papers. His research interests include boundary value problems for elastic plates with transverse shear deformation, direct and indirect integral equation methods for elliptic problems and time-dependent problems, and variational methods in elasticity.
"""In my opinion, this is quite simply the best book of its kind that I have seen thus far."" —Professor Peter Schiavone, University of Alberta, from the Foreword to the Fourth Edition Praise for the previous editions An ideal tool for students taking a first course in PDEs, as well as for the lecturers who teach such courses."" —Marian Aron, Plymouth University, UK ""This is one of the best books on elementary PDEs this reviewer has read so far. Highly recommended."" —CHOICE"