Science and Education Publishing Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Applications 1 1 2013 09 23 Application of the He’s Semi-inverse Method for (2 + 1)-Dimensional Nonlinear PDEs 29 31 EN Mohammad Najafi Medical Biology Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran Malihe Najafi Somayeh Arbabi JMSA2013123 10.12691/jmsa-1-2-3 2013 05 07 2013 -1 17 2013 09 23 We make use of the He’s semi-inverse method and symbolic computation to construct new exact traveling wave solutions for the (2 + 1)-dimensional Boussinesq and breaking soliton equations. Many new exact traveling wave solutions are successfully obtained, which contain soliton solutions. This method is straightforward and concise, and it can also be applied to other nonlinear evolution equations.