Download or read book Soliton Equations and Hamiltonian Systems written by L.A. Dickey and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1991 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of soliton equations and integrable systems has developed rapidly during the last 20 years with numerous applications in mechanics and physics. For a long time books in this field have not been written but the flood of papers was overwhelming: many hundreds, maybe thousands of them. All this followed one single work by Gardner, Greene, Kruskal, and Miura about the Korteweg-de Vries equation (KdV) which, had seemed to be merely an unassuming equation of mathematical physics describing waves in shallow water.