Advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in engineering, physics, applied math, and geophysics.
The jump from Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) to PDEs is notoriously difficult. In ODEs, students learn algorithmic methods—step-by-step recipes that yield a solution. In PDEs, the game changes entirely.
Despite being in its 4th edition, some users report a noticeable number of typos in formulas.