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Download or read book Symmetry and Integration Methods for Differential Equations written by George Bluman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-01-10 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text discusses Lie groups of transformations and basic symmetry methods for solving ordinary and partial differential equations. It places emphasis on explicit computational algorithms to discover symmetries admitted by differential equations and to construct solutions resulting from symmetries. This new edition covers contact transformations, Lie-B cklund transformations, and adjoints and integrating factors for ODEs of arbitrary order.