The Origins of Mechanical Conservation Principles and Variational Calculus in the 17th Century

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-39905-3_1zbMath1322.01006OpenAlexW4251611966MaRDI QIDQ5261820

Erwin Stein

Publication date: 8 July 2015

Published in: The History of Theoretical, Material and Computational Mechanics - Mathematics Meets Mechanics and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39905-3_1

zbMATH Keywords

brachistochrone problemcatenary curvecycloidtautochrone problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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