Symmetries and Differential Equations

A major portion of this book discusses work which has appeared since the publication of the book Similarity Methods for Differential Equations , Springer-Verlag, 1974, by the first author and J.D. Cole. The present book also includes a thorough and comprehensive treatment of Lie groups of tranformations and their various uses for solving ordinary and partial differential equations. No knowledge of group theory is assumed. Emphasis is placed on explicit computational algorithms to discover symmet