Lagrange and the calculus of variations

DOI10.1007/S40329-014-0049-XMaRDI QIDQ262177zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. Serfaty

Publication date 29 March 2016

Published in Lettera Matematica. International Edition (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s40329-014-0049-x

zbMATH Keywords

calculus of variationspartial differential equationsEulerLagrangemechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of calculus of variations and optimal control (49-03) Discrete-time games (91A50)

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