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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 31/08/10 15:04, Anders Logg wrote:
> "Poisson equation" sounds strange to me. Shouldn't it be either
> "Poisson's equation", "The Poisson equation", or "A Poisson equation"?
> 

"Poisson equation" is commonly used. So is "Poisson's equation", but we
don't use "Stokes'", "Cahn-Hilliard's", "Navier-Stokes'", etc. It's not
"A", because there is only one.

Garth


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