New insight into optimization and variational problems in the 17th century

DOI10.1108/02644400310488826zbMath1040.49002OpenAlexW2001282102MaRDI QIDQ4467641

Erwin Stein, K. Wiechmann

Publication date: 10 June 2004

Published in: Engineering Computations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1108/02644400310488826

zbMATH Keywords

finite element methodvariational calculusnonlinear analysisbrachistochrone problemseventeenth centuryFermat's principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of calculus of variations and optimal control (49-03) Discrete approximations in optimal control (49M25) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45)

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