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    "Preamble\n",
    "===\n",
    "\n",
    "This material provides an applied introduction to the finite element method. Theory is interleaved with computer experiments using NGS-Py, the Python frontend to the Netgen/NGSolve finite element library.\n",
    "\n",
    "The latest version of this course can be found at [ngsolve.org/iFEM](https://www.ngsolve.org/iFEM).\n",
    "\n",
    "Install Netgen/NGSolve and Jupyter notebooks as explained in the official documentation to Netgen/NGSolve\n",
    "[here](https://ngsolve.org/docu/latest/).\n",
    "\n",
    "Further reading of the author is available at [lecture notes](http://asc.tuwien.ac.at/~schoeberl/wiki/index.php/Lecture_Notes)\n",
    "and [supplements](http://asc.tuwien.ac.at/~schoeberl/wiki/index.php/Numpde15).\n",
    "\n",
    "All the details on vectorial finite elements are found in Sabine Zaglmayr's Phd thesis from [here](http://asc.tuwien.ac.at/~schoeberl/wiki/index.php/Theses). A introduction for Hybrid Discontinuous Galerkin methods is Christoph Lehrenfeld's Master thesis, also from [here](http://asc.tuwien.ac.at/~schoeberl/wiki/index.php/Theses).\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "A recommended textbook for mixed finite element methods is [Mixed Finite  Element Methods and Applications](http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783642365188) by D. Boffi, F. Brezzi, and M. Fortin.\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "Joachim Schöberl, September 2017"
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