Dirichlet problem

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Also Known As	first boundary value problem

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boundary value problem Burnside problem Sturm-Liouville problem traveling salesman problem cryptarithm Waring’s problem birthday problem

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Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet

German mathematician

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