The development of the analytical mechanics of Euler, Lagrange and Hamilton from a student's perspective

DOI10.1002/GAMM.201110027MaRDI QIDQ2890612zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maximilian Gerstner, Patrick R. Schmitt, Paul Steinmann

Publication date 11 June 2012

Published in GAMM-Mitteilungen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1002/gamm.201110027

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonhistory of analytical mechanicsLagrange

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mechanics of particles and systems (70-03) Lagrange's equations (70H03) Hamilton's equations (70H05)

Review text

This is a brief survey of the development of analytical mechanics with the emphasis on the contributions of Lagrange and Hamilton. The authors incline to the use of a modern formalism to express the results. They illustrate the theory by means of the example of the simple mathematical pendulum.

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