Professor A Das has the enviable reputation of being one of the best teachers at the Department of Physics of the University of Rochester. He always gives clear, concise, and incisive lectures and seminars. His previous book on Quantum Mechanics based upon his lectures (jointly written with Prof A C Melissinos) has received many good reviews from several physicists, notably Professor T D Lee of Columbia University. His current lecture notes on the soliton and integrable models does not betray our expectation and gives equally well a clear presentation of the KdV equation and related topics in a similarly well organized fashion in spite of its harder subject matter. Although there are many books on this important topic, the materials in this lecture notes are more up-to-date, with many subjects not readily found in other books. His style is lucid, and almost enjoyable to read. More importantly, he explains difficult subjects such as inverse scattering method in a clear and easily digestible way. I can recommend the book strongly to any one interested in the subject.
S Okubo
“… very successful in covering the theory of solitons … remarkable for its lucid exposition of fairly complicated subjects and for not avoiding a number of computations that many other books omit … an excellent introduction to the theory of solitons for nonspecialists, as well as a good resource book for researchers on the subject.”
