@InProceedings{novak_et_al:DagSemProc.04401.12, author = {Novak, Erich and Dahlke, Stephan and Sickel, Winfried}, title = {{Optimal Approximation of Elliptic Problems by Linear and Nonlinear Mappings}}, booktitle = {Algorithms and Complexity for Continuous Problems}, series = {Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)}, ISSN = {1862-4405}, year = {2005}, volume = {4401}, editor = {Thomas M\"{u}ller-Gronbach and Erich Novak and Knut Petras and Joseph F. Traub}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.04401.12}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-1471}, doi = {10.4230/DagSemProc.04401.12}, annote = {Keywords: elliptic operator equation , worst case error , linear approximation method , nonlinear approximation method , best n-term approximation Bernstein widths , manifold widths} }