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Twenty-eight year old Mattias is up to his neck in debt and he's just been thrown out of his girlfriens's apartment in Paris. Now he's forced to do what he vowed never to do again: ask his father for help. What he hopes will be a quick in-and-out becomes a forty-eight hour helter-skelter through Amsterdam, where the past he fears the most, and one he never knew existed, come to meet him.

The finite element method (FEM) has been understood, at least in principle, for more than 50 years. The integral formulation on which it is based has been known for a longer time (thanks to the work of Galerkin, Ritz, Courant and Hilbert, 1.4 to mention the most important). However, the method could not be applied in a practical way since it involved the solution of a large number of linear or non-linear algebraic equations. Today it is quite ...