Freguglia, Paolo
The Early Period of the Calculus of Variations
Table of contents
1. Some Introductory Material
Paolo Freguglia, Mariano Giaquinta
2. The Brachistochrone Problem: Johann and Jakob Bernoulli
Paolo Freguglia, Mariano Giaquinta
3. Isoperimetrical Problems: Jakob and Johann Bernoulli
Paolo Freguglia, Mariano Giaquinta
4. Shortest Lines and Geodesics
Paolo Freguglia, Mariano Giaquinta
5. Euler’s Memoirs of 1738 and 1741
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6. Euler’s
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7. Lagrange’s delta
–Calculus
Paolo Freguglia, Mariano Giaquinta
Keywords: Mathematics, History of Mathematical Sciences, Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization
- Author(s)
- Freguglia, Paolo
- Giaquinta, Mariano
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2016
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 12 pages
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319389455
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-38944-8
