Applied Partial Differential Equations - Oxford Applied & Engineering Mathematics Author:John Ockendon, Sam Howison, Andrew Lacey, Alexander Movchan Partial differential equations are a vibrant field of study: there is a huge and ever-growing range of real-world problems to which they can be applied, from fluid mechanics and electromagnetism to probability and finance. This book is a lively and well-written guide to both the theory and applications.