Galerkin may refer to:
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Boris Galerkin
Boris Grigoryevich Galerkin (, surname more accurately romanized as Galyorkin; –12 July 1945) was a Soviet mathematician and an engineer.
Biography
Early life
Galerkin was born on in Polotsk, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire, now part of ...
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Galerkin method
In mathematics, in the area of numerical analysis, Galerkin methods are a family of methods for converting a continuous operator problem, such as a differential equation, commonly in a weak formulation, to a discrete problem by applying linear c ...
, a method for discretisation of continuous problems, named after Boris Galerkin
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