Commentary: Three decades after Cathleen Synge Morawetz’s paper “The mathematical approach to the sonic barrier”

Gamba, Irene

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Commentary: Three decades after Cathleen Synge Morawetz’s paper “The mathematical approach to the sonic barrier”
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Immediately following the commentary below, this previously published article is reprinted in its entirety: Cathleen Synge Morawetz, “The mathematical approach to the sonic barrier”, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 6 (1982), no. 2, 127–145.

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