Integral Equations

Figure showing temperature regions around a plate.

Temperature profile around a plate (red: hot, to blue: cold), which is found via a singular integral equation. (Courtesy of Dr. Jaehyuk Choi. Used with permission.)

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MIT Course Number

18.307

As Taught In

Spring 2006

Level

Graduate

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Course Description

Course Description

This course emphasizes concepts and techniques for solving integral equations from an applied mathematics perspective. Material is selected from the following topics: Volterra and Fredholm equations, Fredholm theory, the Hilbert-Schmidt theorem; Wiener-Hopf Method; Wiener-Hopf Method and partial differential equations; the Hilbert Problem and singular integral equations of Cauchy type; inverse scattering transform; and group theory. Examples are taken from fluid and solid mechanics, acoustics, quantum mechanics, and other applications.

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Dionisios Margetis. 18.307 Integral Equations. Spring 2006. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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