“…In the finite elements literature there are Least-Squares Finite Element Methods [6,20,24]. With expansion functions that satisfy the differential equation but not the boundary conditions, one gets series methods [33] or the Method of Fundamental Solutions (MFS) [3,13] or lightning or log-lightning methods for PDE problems with corner singularities [16,26]. Related expansions that do not satisfy the differential equation and hence need fitting in the interior of a domain, not just on the boundary, lead to least-squares methods for radial basis functions (RBFs) or other kernels [10,14,21,29].…”