I was searching a computerized card catalog for a book on PDEs. I accidentally hit return after just just typing the word “partial”. The first ten hits were all for books on PDEs. I just tried the same search on Amazon (restricted to books), and get almost the same result: 8 of the first twelve hits are for books on PDEs.
Google does personalise search results. Maybe amazon too.
I (who wonder if I’ll suffer from “Partial immortalization”) just searched “partial” on Google. It told me:
partial - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online DictionaryDefinition of partial from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games.
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Partial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaLook up partial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Partial may refer to: … Retrieved from “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial” …
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Partial Differential Equations: Graduate Studies in Mathematics - Google Books Resultby Lawrence C. Evans - 1998 - Mathematics - 662 pages
This text gives a comprehensive survey of modern techniques in the theoretical study of partial differential equations (PDEs) with particular emphasis on…
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partial - Definitions from Dictionary.comDefinitions of partial at Dictionary.com. … The police have only a partial description of the suspect. Favoring one person or side over another or others; …
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Partial Class Definitions (C#)It is possible to split the definition of a class or a struct, or an interface over two or more source files. Each source file contains a section of the …
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Ryan’s Scraps: What’s New in Edge Rails: Partial UpdatesApr 1, 2008 … In lock-step with the recent dirty objects functionality comes the ability of ActiveRecord models to perform partial updates – which only …
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Wiley InterScience :: JOURNALS :: Numerical Methods for Partial …JOURNALS. Home / Mathematics and Statistics / Numerical Methods. Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations …
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WikiHome - JotSpot Wiki (continuouspartialattention)Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today. … Like so many things, in small doses, continuous partial attention can be …
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Pimm - Partial immortalizationI suggested & held a session which was related a bit to partial immortalization but was rather about the systems biology perspective in general, …
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ADA.org: Oral Health Topics: Removable Partial DenturesThis page provides current information about Removable Partial Dentures as it relates to the public.
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On the opposite note, I once typed “relaxation methods” into Google and was genuinely surprised when I didn’t get a pagefull of results about numerical analysis.