J. L. Lagrange's changing approach to the foundations of the calculus of variations
From MaRDI portal
Publication:1059621
DOI10.1007/BF00329871zbMath0567.01011OpenAlexW2073670956MaRDI QIDQ1059621
Publication date: 1985
Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00329871
History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of calculus of variations and optimal control (49-03) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)
Related Items
The origins of Euler's variational calculus, Lagrange formal calculus as applied to Lagrange mechanics: An exercise in anachronism, Developing into series and returning from series: A note on the foundations of eighteenth-century analysis, Isoperimetric problems in the variational calculus of Euler and Lagrange, Euler and the structure of mathematics, The varieties of mechanics by 1800, Joseph Louis Lagrange's algebraic vision of the calculus, Lagrange's theory of analytical functions and his ideal of purity of method, Lagrange and the calculus of variations
Cites Work