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Functions in mathematics

In mathematics, mathematical physics and the theory of stochastic processes, a harmonic function is a twice continuously differentiable function ⁠⁠, where ⁠⁠ is an open subset of ⁠⁠, that satisfies Laplace's equation, that is, everywhere on ⁠⁠. This is usually written as or Wikipedia →

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Noun A function of two, three or n variables which is a solution to any of Laplace's equations

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