MATH4481 Soliton Theory

The module description can be found at MATH4481 Soliton Theory.

Homework Sheets.

Here are the homework sheets handed out to date.

  1. MATH4481 Examples 1
  2. MATH4481 Examples 2
  3. MATH4481 Examples 3
  4. MATH4481 Examples 4
  5. MATH4481 Examples 5

Useful Web Pages

Some interesting and useful web pages on solitons and integrable systems are:

  1. Many Faces of Solitons
  2. Soliton Page at Heriot-Watt University
  3. John Scott Russell Page at Heriot-Watt U.
  4. BBC "Local Heroes" programme page on John Scott Russell
  5. Soliton Propagation in Optical Fibers
  6. A page with many interesting links

Biographies and History

A useful web site for biographies and other historical data on mathematicians is The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive . Some of the characters of particular importance to integrable systems and soliton theory are listed below. Unfortunately, there is nothing available on Martin Kruskal and other leading characters of modern soliton theory.
  1. Albert Victor Bäcklund
  2. Gaston Darboux
  3. Korteweg and de Vries Page
  4. Diederik Korteweg
  5. Sofia Kovalevskaya
  6. Sophus Lie
  7. Joseph Liouville
  8. Paul Painlevé
  9. John Scott Russell
  10. Vito Volterra
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