Varadhan, S. R. S. Particle systems and partial differential equations. (English) Zbl 1167.82351 Chang, Sun-Yung Alice (ed.) et al., Lectures on partial differential equations. Proceedings of the conference, Hsinchu, Taiwan, September 2000 in honor of Louis Nirenberg’s 75th birthday. Somerville, MA: International Press (ISBN 1-57146-111-6/hbk). New Stud. Adv. Math. 2, 217-222 (2003). Summary: In a beautiful example of scientific exposition the author explains the heuristics of the relationships of the topics in the title.For the entire collection see [Zbl 1034.35002]. MSC: 82C22 Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics 35L60 First-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations 35Q53 KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) 39A05 General theory of difference equations 60K35 Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory × Cite Format Result Cite Review PDF