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The author explains in the preface that the book is based on a series of lectures given to graduate students both at the University of Illinois and at Oxford University and is intended to provide a framework for such a course given primarily to graduate students in applied mathematics. \par The book is what it says it is; it is a textbook for a particular kind of student based on a particular course. The book's contents reflect the interest of the author. The presentation is merely good. The book has been reproduced from a camera ready manuscript of which the typing was adequate but nothing more. The text even contains the typical misprints and minor errors which one expects from a first draft prepared for students.