Lagrange and the calculus of variations

DOI10.1007/S40329-014-0049-XzbMATH Open1332.49002OpenAlexW1976142739MaRDI QIDQ262177FDOQ262177

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

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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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