Excerpt from Lectures on Combustion Theory This volume contains the elaborations of lectures at a seminar held at the Courant Institute in the spring of 1977 on the mathematical aspects of combustion. The purpose of the seminar was to put the achievements and problems of combustion theory into sharp focus and to bring them to the attention of the mathematical community, in the hope that, just as in the past, mathematical methods will shed light on these theories, and that mathematical ideas will lead to new and efficient computational procedures. The first half of the semester was devoted to subjects that were reasonably well understood as mathematics; the speakers were mathematicians. After the spring recess the seminar was devoted to subjects not yet mathematically digested; among the speakers there were engineers, chemists, and physicists with sympathy in their hearts for mathematics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.