Lions–Lax–Milgram theorem
Teorema de Lions-Lax-Milgram
- Date
- c. 1960 · confidence low
- Place
- Paris, France
- Credited to
- Peter Lax, Arthur Milgram y Jacques-Louis Lions
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
Generalization of the Lax–Milgram theorem giving conditions for the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions to boundary value problems defined by time-dependent operators.
What it led to
- Standard tool of functional analysis applied to PDEs
- Theoretical basis of the finite element method
- Modern theory of evolution equations
- Variational formulations in engineering