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The title of this chapter refers to the fact that, by the use of topological methods, Granas, Guenther, and Lee Granas et al. (1978) were able to extend the classical boundary value theory of Bernstein Bernstein (1912). This chapter is based on their work.
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Brown, R.F. (2014). Generalized Bernstein Theory. In: A Topological Introduction to Nonlinear Analysis. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11794-2_7
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