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Minimal Nodal Domains For Strictly Elliptic Partial Differential Equations With Homogeneous Boundary Conditions, Charles E. Miller

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This work presents a proof of the dependence of the first eigenvalue for uniformly elliptic partial differential equations on the domain in a less abstract setting than that of Ivo Babušhka and Rudolf Výborný in 1965. The proof contained here, under rather mild conditions on the boundary of the domain, ∂Ω, demonstrates that the first eigenvalue of elliptic partial differential equation

{Lu + λu = 0 in Ω

{u = 0 on ∂Ω

depends continuously on the domain in the following sense. If a sequence of domains is such that Ω_i → Ω in …

The Evolution Of Equation-Solving: Linear, Quadratic, And Cubic, Annabelle Louise Porter

Theses Digitization Project

This paper is intended as a professional developmental tool to help secondary algebra teachers understand the concepts underlying the algorithms we use, how these algorithms developed, and why they work. It uses a historical perspective to highlight many of the concepts underlying modern equation solving.