Partial differential equation

Quality:

Partial differential equation - differential equation that contains unknown multivariable functions and their partial derivatives. Article “Partial differential equation” in Simple English Wikipedia has 23.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Partial differential equation”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1365 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 68 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9455 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #372 in February 2009
• Global: #1277 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2117 in February 2009
• Global: #9573 in March 2015

There are 42 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Partielle Differentialgleichung		57.8895
2	English (en) Partial differential equation		47.6087
3	Malay (ms) Persamaan pembezaan separa		46.6667
4	Japanese (ja) 偏微分方程式		41.1614
5	Greek (el) Μερική διαφορική εξίσωση		37.2872
6	Hungarian (hu) Parciális differenciálegyenlet		36.535
7	Catalan (ca) Equació diferencial en derivades parcials		32.0086
8	Chinese (zh) 偏微分方程		30.9667
9	Russian (ru) Дифференциальное уравнение в частных производных		30.2972
10	Italian (it) Equazione differenziale alle derivate parziali		30.0516

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Partial differential equation		6 873 735
2	German (de) Partielle Differentialgleichung		1 141 678
3	Spanish (es) Ecuación en derivadas parciales		855 862
4	Russian (ru) Дифференциальное уравнение в частных производных		772 622
5	Chinese (zh) 偏微分方程		703 597
6	French (fr) Équation aux dérivées partielles		666 317
7	Japanese (ja) 偏微分方程式		556 745
8	Italian (it) Equazione differenziale alle derivate parziali		478 437
9	Korean (ko) 편미분 방정식		243 182
10	Portuguese (pt) Equação diferencial parcial		205 940

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Partial differential equation		11 700
2	German (de) Partielle Differentialgleichung		1 537
3	French (fr) Équation aux dérivées partielles		1 262
4	Japanese (ja) 偏微分方程式		1 128
5	Russian (ru) Дифференциальное уравнение в частных производных		1 064
6	Chinese (zh) 偏微分方程		980
7	Spanish (es) Ecuación en derivadas parciales		692
8	Italian (it) Equazione differenziale alle derivate parziali		652
9	Polish (pl) Równanie różniczkowe cząstkowe		404
10	Korean (ko) 편미분 방정식		292

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Partial differential equation		351
2	German (de) Partielle Differentialgleichung		120
3	French (fr) Équation aux dérivées partielles		100
4	Italian (it) Equazione differenziale alle derivate parziali		96
5	Russian (ru) Дифференциальное уравнение в частных производных		70
6	Spanish (es) Ecuación en derivadas parciales		53
7	Japanese (ja) 偏微分方程式		43
8	Dutch (nl) Partiële differentiaalvergelijking		43
9	Chinese (zh) 偏微分方程		40
10	Hebrew (he) משוואה דיפרנציאלית חלקית		38

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Partielle Differentialgleichung		1
2	English (en) Partial differential equation		1
3	Basque (eu) Ekuazio diferentzial partzial		1
4	Hungarian (hu) Parciális differenciálegyenlet		1
5	Indonesian (id) Persamaan diferensial parsial		1
6	Serbian (sr) Парцијална диференцијална једначина		1
7	Ukrainian (uk) Диференціальне рівняння з частинними похідними		1
8	Uzbek (uz) Xususiy hosilali differensial tenglama		1
9	Arabic (ar) معادلة تفاضلية جزئية		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Частно диференциално уравнение		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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