Terry Tao's Notes on Sobolev Spaces
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Terence Tao's blog posts and UCLA graduate lecture notes tagged Sobolev spaces, covering Sobolev embedding, weak derivatives, fractional Sobolev norms and their role in harmonic analysis. Readers learn the estimates and heuristics behind modern nonlinear PDE arguments.
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