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Additional Information
  • Peter D. Lax
  • Affiliation: Courant Institute, New York University, 251 Mercer Street, New York, New York 10012-1110
  • Received by editor(s): May 7, 2007
  • Published electronically: October 30, 2007
  • Additional Notes: This article is based on the author’s Gibbs Lecture at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans in 2007.
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    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.
  • Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (2008), 135-152
  • MSC (2000): Primary 35-XX, 76-XX, 46-XX
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-07-01182-2
  • MathSciNet review: 2358380