Solution of the Inverse Problem of the Calculus of Variations

DOI10.2307/1989912zbMath0025.18102OpenAlexW4256601432MaRDI QIDQ5779745

Jesse Douglas

Publication date: 1941

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1989912

zbMATH Keywords

Variational calculus

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• Solution of the Inverse Problem of the Calculus of Variations
• Theorems in the Inverse Problem in the Calculus of Variations