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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0753.00017.] The aim is to present a computer realizable technique to obtain approximate solutions for nonlinear elliptic boundary- and initial value problems. The keystone of the approach proposed is a Schauder fixed point reformulation of the problem and a finite-dimensional approximation of the appropriate functional space via finite element and Newton-like iterative methods. Explicit error estimates are obtained for finite- dimensional projections; finally, the method is illustrated by solving the equations \(\Delta u + f(x,u,\nabla u) = 0\) and \(\Delta u - u_ t + f(x,t,u) = 0\).