Solitons: An Introduction
- New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
- 226p.
1) The Kortewag–de Vries equation 2) Elementary solutions of the Korteweg–de Vries equation; 3) The scattering and inverse scattering problems; 4) The initial-value problem for the Korteweg–de Vries equation; 5) Further properties of the Korteweg–de Vries equation; 6) More general inverse methods; 7) The Painlevé property, perturbations and numerical methods; 8) Epilogue