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<p>analogy, while Courant's approach divides the domain into finite triangular sub-regions to solve <a href="page.php?w=Partial_differential_equation">second-order</a> <a href="page.php?w=elliptic_partial_differential_equation">elliptic partial differential equation</a>s that arise from the problem of the <a href="page.php?w=torsion_%28mechanics%29">torsion</a> of a <a href="page.php?w=cylinder_%28geometry%29">cylinder</a>. Courant's contribution was evolutionary, drawing on a large body of earlier results for PDEs developed by <a href="page.php?w=John_William_Strutt%2C_3rd_Baron_Rayleigh">Lord Rayleigh</a>,</p><p>
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