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The Unfinished PDE Coffee Table Book by Trefethen

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A group project at Oxford University in 2000-2001 aimed to create a book on partial differential equations with 100 2-page spreads, each providing essential information and colorful illustrations. 34 pieces were completed by the end of the project.

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Many people at Oxford and around the world contributed drafts.

In the end, 34 of the pieces were brought into reasonably finished form.

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During 2000-2001 a group project based in the Oxford University was begun to write this book. The vision was 100 2-page spreads, each one giving exactly the most useful possible starting information about a different partial differential equation, with

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