“…[ Published 11 January 1968 However, the investigation of both of these problems for (i) was limited mostly to selfadjoint bounded and unbounded differential and abstract operators. Thus, when T and S are selfadjoint operators, the existence problem was considered in [4,5,8,10,14,25] in case the operators are positive definite and in [12,18,36] in case is the identity and the spectrum of ^contains at most eigenvalues of finite multiplicity. The investigation of the ap proximation problem, both for bounded and unbounded operators, led to the development of a group of direct methods of Ritz, Galerkin, moments, and others [4,5,10,14,15,16,25,27] and to a group of iterative methods of gradient type [1,2,3,6,11,13,16,17,19,20,22,29,30,33,37].…”