Overview: Exactly one hundred years ago, in 1895, G. de Vries, under thesupervision of D. J. Korteweg, defended his thesis on what is nowknown as the Korteweg-de Vries Equation. They published a jointpaper in 1895 in the .Philosophical Magazine., entitled `On thechange of form of long waves advancing in a rectangular canal, and ona new type of long stationary wave‘, and, for the next 60 years or so,no other relevant work seemed to have been done. In the 1960s,however, research on this and related equations exploded. There arenow some 3100 papers in mathematics and physics that contain a mentio
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