Notebooks for
Partial Differential Equations
with Mathematica
(version 1.2)

The most important changes to this version of the Notebooks are that all illustrations are now in PostScript (so that all available versions are the same as that available on MathSource) and each cell contains only a single font (so that the Notebooks can be read on Windows).  Otherwise, there are only a few minor stylistic changes.

June 15, 1993

Notebooks for
Partial Differential Equations
with Mathematica
(version 1.1)

There are two changes that have been introduced into this version of the Notebooks.  First, the Notebooks for Chapters 7 and 10 are now available.  The second change is the introduction of a new folder call "Supplementary."  This file will contain material that is either used or referred to in the Notebooks which may not be otherwise available.

The first file in Supplementary is a package called LaplaceTransform.m.  This is a pre-release version of a package that will be included in the next release of Mathematica.  It requires less memory than the package in the current release and performs similarly to the packages originally used for the examples and problems in Chapter 7.

March 31, 1993

Notebooks for
Partial Differential Equations
with Mathematica
(version 1.0)

This file contains the Mathematica Notebooks from the book Partial Differential Equations with Mathematica.  At the moment, the Notebooks contain only the Mathematica sessions that are used in the main text.  Later versions of these Notebooks will include solutions of the problems which use Mathematica as well, so you should check from time to time to make sure you have the most recent version of the Notebooks.  At the moment, Chapters 7 and 10 are not available, but will be soon.

The calculations in these Notebooks were carried out using version 2.1 of Mathematica, while the calculations in the book were carried out with version 1.2.  All of the calculations were carried out on a Macintosh IIci with 8Mb of RAM.  As far as commands are concerned, there are only a few places where using version 2.1 makes any real difference, and of those, its simply a matter of making a few simple changes in the input.  Additionally, changes sometimes show up in the output, particularly where Integrate is used,

In addition to providing Notebooks, this FTP facility will also be used to distribute a list of errata for the book, solutions to the problems in the form of TeX files, and additional material that might be useful in connection with the book.  All of this material can also be obtained on floppy disks.

Any comments or suggestions can be sent by e-mail to me at

                                    dimitri@sst.ph.ic.ac.uk.
                                    
Dimitri Vvedensky
March 8, 1993