Boris Galerkin
Boris Galerkin · Science & Medicine
The Galerkin method for solving differential equations
1871, Polotsk, Russian Empire (now Belarus) — 1945, Moscow, Soviet Union
Russian Empire · Soviet Union
Boris Galerkin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — The Galerkin method for solving differential equations
Galerkin devised, around 1915, an approximate method for solving differential equations and boundary-value problems that reduces them to a manageable system of equations. The Galerkin method became one of the foundations of the finite element method and is used throughout modern engineering and mathematical physics. He was born to a Jewish family in Polotsk and began working as a boy to support himself.
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The Galerkin method for solving differential equations
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