Lagrange and the calculus of variations

DOI10.1007/s40329-014-0049-xzbMath1332.49002OpenAlexW1976142739MaRDI QIDQ262177

Sylvia Serfaty

Publication date: 29 March 2016

Published in: Lettera Matematica. International Edition (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40329-014-0049-x

zbMATH Keywords

calculus of variationspartial differential equationsmechanicsLagrangeEuler

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete-time games (91A50) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of calculus of variations and optimal control (49-03) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

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• J. L. Lagrange's changing approach to the foundations of the calculus of variations
• On Newton's problem of minimal resistance
• Joseph Louis Lagrange's algebraic vision of the calculus
• Methodus inveniendi lineas curvas maximi minimive proprietate gaudentes, sive solutio problematis isoperimetrici lattissimo sensu accepti

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