  A novel mathematical nonlinear theory of surface gravity waves in deep water
is presented, in which analytical analysis of the classical nonlinear equations
of fluid dynamics is performed under less restrictive assumptions than those
applied by existing theories. In particular, the new theory ensures uniqueness
of the solution without the need to employ the so-called radiation condition,
and its solutions are such that the liquid always remains at rest at infinity,
and the energy supplied to the water by a source of disturbances is finite at
all times - all that in contrast with conventional approaches that operate in
terms of spatially-infinite harmonic waves. The new theory accounts for the
non-linearity of the problem, and yields solutions valid at all times, from
zero (the time of setting initial conditions) to infinity. The author describes
previously unknown patterns in wave evolution, and confirms those patterns with
the experimental results by other researchers.
