Galileo's Work on Swiftest Descent from a Circle and How He Almost Proved the Circle Itself Was the Minimum Time Path

DOI10.2307/2589709zbMath0915.01005OpenAlexW4238558024MaRDI QIDQ4222473

Herman Erlichson

Publication date: 5 July 1999

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2589709

zbMATH Keywords

brachistochrone problemGalileo

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of calculus of variations and optimal control (49-03) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45)

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